Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have-nots are often painfully aware of statistics showing that a college degree is worth roughly $4,000 a year more in earning power than a high school diploma. To compound their anger, the city's changing population patterns have surrounded some of C.U.N.Y.'s 18 campuses with increasingly resentful black neighborhoods. A year and a half ago, black students made the City College campus the focal point of their rage. They demanded that more blacks be admitted to the predominantly white enclave on a hilltop above Harlem. Weeks of turmoil, which included the burning of an auditorium...
...brief period after DDT was first put to use In 1945, the pasture mosquito seemed under control in California. But within seven years, the insects had become so resistant to the new chemical that researchers had to develop another organic compound, ethyl parathion. That failed in 1961-as did methyl parathion in 1963, and fenthion in 1968. Today, California has no chemical able to kill the pasture mosquito in safe dosages...
...compound the problem, aerial spraying used to be so effective that mosquito-control agencies permitted farmers to forgo installing drainage facilities to reduce the insect's breeding grounds. As a result, the Central Valley's heavily irrigated crop lands have become huge hatcheries for Aëdes nigromaculus. Now that insecticides are useless, farmers are being ordered to drain their fields-a costly process that may force many small operators out of business...
Militant students and teachers compound the problem. "It seems logical to assume that there is a cell of subversives on the faculty," said Lee Dorfman of Scarsdale. "Those of us who have been putting up money to pay such teachers are fed up with the whole plan...
...were admitted to a Montreal hospital with acute lead poisoning. The younger boy died three days later; his brother survived. In tracing the source of the poison, doctors learned that both boys had recently been drinking large quantities of apple juice from a handcrafted earthenware jug. Glazed with a compound containing a high lead content, the jug poisoned the apple juice at a prodigious rate. Within three hours, juice stored in the jug had a lead content of 157 parts per million. The maximum allowed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is only...