Word: leaching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many consumers are feeling deceived now that the company has been outed for failing to tell the public that its bottles were not BPA-free, at least not the ones that were manufactured before August 2008. The company had boasted that its proprietary plastic liner didn't leach BPA into liquid like other bottles did. What it neglected to divulge was that the bottles contained the substance at all. While there's no evidence that the first-generation SIGGs did in fact leach BPA, there's still plenty of grumbling at the company's lack of disclosure. The news...
...also championed government whistle-blowers and launched probes into the tax status of (GOP friendly) Evangelical preachers. That independence helps explain why he is easily Iowa's most popular politician, winning re-election four times. "Everybody trusts Chuck in Iowa," says former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach...
...develop safety regulations to be announced by December. Furthermore, Representative Nick Rahall has proposed legislation that would federally mandate engineering standards for fly-ash impoundments. The TVA is now preparing to convert its coal waste disposal from slurry form to dry storage, which is much less likely to leach into soil and cause toxic spills...
...look at what she's done since taking her job, you realize Anne Lauvergeon had the drive, creativity and vision to assemble all these parts into a single unit to be ready for a nuclear renaissance that she saw coming," says Ben Elias, research analyst for Sterne, Agee & Leach in New York. "There are very few CEOs in her league...
After more than 15 years of largely fruitless diplomacy, the U.S. and its allies are preparing a high-seas quarantine to try to ensure that North Korea's nuclear knowledge doesn't leach beyond its borders. While the details remain to be worked out, U.S. President Barack Obama - after meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung Bak in Washington on June 16 - indicated that the battle to contain North Korea's atomic arsenal is headed offshore. "This is not simply a U.S. policy - this is an international policy," Obama said of the evolving plan to search North Korean vessels suspected...