Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PAST several years, hazardous chemicals have become one of the hottest and most politically toxic issues in state and national government. After the shock of Love Canal and the Times Beach "metrocide," it didn't take long for people to figure out that chemicals that can poison a dump site probably aren't too healthful to work with. Concerned workers and environmentalists around the country began to draft "Right to Know" legislation requiring employers to provide information on any hazardous materials used in their firms...
Opponents claim that the profitmaking hospitals "dump" poor or uninsured patients by sending them to the nearest public hospital. Critics also charge that they concentrate on such relatively simple yet expensive treatments as delivering babies and removing gall bladders, but leave less profitable procedures like organ transplants and cancer therapy to large teaching hospitals...
...feisty union leader had a convivial talk and, in a coup for the President, Shanker said he was willing to explore different methods of compensation for teachers. "Ronald Reagan has been a disaster," he said. "But if he does something right, I'm not going to dump...
There was apparently no dispute within the Administration about the wisdom of the seven-for-one U.S. retaliation. The practical effect will be to dump the work of the consulates, processing visas and trade documents, onto Nicaragua's inexperienced Washington embassy staff. The six closed consulates, the State Department claimed somewhat unpersuasively, had been used "for intelligence operations...
...used to generate such waste. The bill actually exempts such research, but universities insist that provision is useless. If all other waste disposal is curbed, then universities would have to establish their own facilities--a fiscally infeasible proposition, they say. "If we are deprived of a place to dump we could see large cutbacks in research," says Jacob Shapiro, radiological health and safety engineer to the University Health Services, and a nationally known expert on the problems of low level radioactive waste disposal...