Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lead carbonate). This material is notorious for coming loose from the window frames in nice little candy sticks. Cans of lead putty currently on shelves in New Haven, Conn., are not even labeled "poison." Stores have about an equal amount of putty for sale as they do of glazing compound which serves the same purpose and contains no lead...
...environment. "I'm more than upset," he says, "at how badly real estate taxes have been misused over the years. It's like peeling an onion-you take away layer after layer and uncover an interconnected nest of unintended social and economic evils. And federal taxes simply compound these evils...
...city housing market. Since 1960 the number of Harvard students living in Cambridge has risen by nearly one third. Students are generally wealthier than workers in areas like East Cambridge and can afford to pay higher rents. People associated with the universities--secretaries, clerks, faculty, hangers on, etc.--compound the problem...
...avant-garde campuses, where antimilitarism is now the prevailing style, ROTC students feel more socially out than ever. To compound their defensiveness, ROTC critics argue that the goals of the university and the military are antithetical. "The university seeks to promote democracy and equality and above all to prize independence of mind and judgment," says James R. Anderson, 29, a humanities instructor at Michigan State University, who spent two years in Army ROTC when he was an undergraduate. "The military," says Anderson, "stresses hierarchy, the solution to problems through violence rather than reason, and unquestioning obedience to commands from above...
...commonly known as "synthetic marijuana," is one compound isolated from marijuana, but it has never been proven as the active compound, Dr. Weil said, "and there is no such thing as illegal THC. That is just tranquilizer in a capsule. The real stuff is too hard to get and too expensive to manufacture illegally...