Word: leak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...throat, stomach, bladder, pancreas and lungs, as well as heart disease, emphysema and bronchitis. Comments Dr. Harvey Fineberg, dean of the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health: "To smoke cigarettes in order to reduce your risk of uterine cancer is like looking for a gas leak with a lighted match...
Compared with the misfortunes of Union Carbide, Job had it easy. The company's problems began nearly a decade ago with a profit slump that has persisted ever since. Then this past December came the leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a plant in Bhopal, India, which killed 2,500 people and provoked more than $100 billion in lawsuits. Last month Union Carbide fell deeper into trouble when a toxic leak in Institute, W. Va., sent 135 people to the hospital and prompted an additional $88 million in suits. Now Union Carbide faces a potential assault by corporate raiders...
...company's public image were not blackened enough, Union Carbide suffered another toxic leak last week. A cloud of hydrochloric acid escaped from its South Charleston, W. Va., plant, briefly threatening 60,000 people attending an outdoor festival. But this time the company acted swiftly and efficiently. An emergency squad sprayed the chemical with water to dilute it, and no one was seriously injured. Union Carbide can only hope that last week's painful cutbacks will be just as effective...
...technical journals and documents freely available in the U.S. Specialized translators at the Soviet State Committee for Science and Technology (GKNT) assess some 1.5 million scientific papers a year. A favorite source: Aviation Week and Space Technology, a trade journal so informative that it is known as "Aviation Leak." Several dozen copies of the magazine are put on a plane to Moscow every week. They are translated in mid-flight...
...information which must remain absolutely secret. We have espionage and treason laws to handle such situations. But I also believe that journalists, academics, public servants and whistle blowers have just as much right to free speech as do the high officials who call reporters into their offices and leak classified information in support of Administration policy. The danger isn't just in censorship. It's in the threat of censorship. Those in power are not the ones who will be prosecuted under an official secrets act. The defendants will be those who have challenged them to explain themselves, to reconsider...