Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...common experience. The plane levels and the NO SMOKING sign flicks off with a gentle ding. Simultaneously an entire section of nervous flyers light up. The cloud of smoke drifts around the cabin and is then circulated again and again through the ventilation system. Last week the National Research Council offered the nonsmoking majority some relief. After an 18- month study for the Federal Aviation Administration, the council recommended a federal ban on smoking on all domestic airline flights. The report offered no solid proof that smoke in airplane cabins is a genuine health hazard to nonsmokers...
...cloud of deadly methyl isocyanate gas poured out of the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killing more than 2,000 people. Since then, Carbide officials have offered allegations that the world's worst industrial accident may have been the result of a deliberate act. Last week the company went further, declaring that their pretrial investigation was focused on a disgruntled employee. According to an earlier report in the London Times, the employee, an Indian citizen, might have been trying to spoil a batch of the chemical after a row with his supervisor...
...million federal employees, that adds up to some 110,000 people whose careers would be curtailed by the erroneous results of an unneccessary drug test. Even if they were later to be vindicated, their negative test results would undoubtedly "be noted" in the back of their superiors' minds. The cloud of suspicion would surely hover over them for the rest of their lives...
...slackened little in 20 years. Like a shark silently threading a reef, the sleek body of the bomber passes through a succession of signs denoting the good life and ways of defending it; a bubble of air from an Aqua-Lung regulator mimics the burst of a nuclear cloud, over which is set an umbrella; the hole in a frosted ring cake suggests a missile silo; a chillingly winsome little blond muffin sits precociously under a hair dryer, whose gleaming cone evokes the nose of an ICBM...
...this is good news for young associates, the entry-level lawyers who toil for five to nine years in the hope of joining the full partners, who split a firm's profits. But as the new lawyers are just now discovering, this silver lining comes with a cloud. At the big firms that pay those high salaries, associates commonly work at uninspiring tasks, poring over old court decisions and statute books, then drafting memos for the higher-ups. Rarely meeting clients or standing up to argue in court, they dig again and again into the same tiny areas of cases...