Word: laden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against products that are truly outrageous. The Postal Service, for example, took action against diet sunglasses, which supposedly altered food color and made meals appear less appetizing, and a satin headband designed to emit electromagnetic waves that, according to the manufacturer's claims, help customers refuse to eat calorie- laden foods...
...plea bargain capped months of rumors that the Government was ready to expand an indictment already laden with charges of racketeering, securities fraud and insider trading. Prosecutors had given Milken until last Friday to settle the case or face the new charges. Under terms of the agreement, Milken is to plead guilty only to securities-fraud violations, which carry lesser prison sentences than his earlier charges...
...spill last March, Captain Joseph Hazelwood was widely viewed as America's Environmental Enemy No. 1. As the dimensions of the catastrophe in Prince William Sound came into focus, people had little trouble deciding where their sympathies lay: with the seabirds and otters suffering and dying in the oil-laden waters, not with the hard-drinking skipper who was in his cabin doing paperwork when his tanker plowed into Bligh Reef...
...comes time to deal, his narrow coalition is likely to face intense opposition from a newly unified right-wing. Should Peres fail to form a government, Shamir will try to cobble together his own majority. If he succeeds, the path to peace will be thoroughly mined by a Cabinet laden with extremists. Should both leaders be unsuccessful and Israelis have to return to the polls, another parliamentary deadlock is expected. The fourth option, which has already been suggested by former Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a Laborite, may prove the least desirable: the formation of yet another government of national unity...
THMs--high levels of which are a fairly common problem in the U.S.--form when chlorine added to water to kill dangerous bacteria reacts with organic material, such as leaves and grass. Some experts say it is more dangerous to drink bacteria-laden water, than water that contains THMs...