Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Guidotti, working with Schechter, suspects that eugenol--or some byproduct created when it is burned--immobilizes infection-fighting cells, allowing viruses and bacteria already present in the lungs to run amuck. The other possibilities, he says, are that eugenol or another ingredient has a direct toxic effect or that it triggers an acute allergic reaction. Last month the American Lung Association issued a preliminary warning about clove cigarettes, and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta plan to look for further evidence of kretek-induced illness...
...reacts quickly with water, and can easily be absorbed through the skin or inhaled. It causes moist human tissues like lung interiors to swell and the eyes to develop cataracts. Victims can suffocate because MIC causes the lungs to fill with fluid, and they can suffer liver damage and burning of the nasal passages, throat and trachea...
Because of its long history, phosgene's effects on humans are well known. Inhalation causes severe lung injury, but since the gas has no effect on the upper respiratory tract, victims have no immediate warning, other than a musty odor, that they have breathed in a poisonous gas. Choking is usually the first symptom. Then the lungs eventually fill with fluid and asphyxiation occurs. In most cases of moderate exposure to MIC, the effects are treatable. Even small doses of phosgene, however, can be lethal...
...damage payments. In 1982 Manville took that controversial route when it was in danger of being overwhelmed by lawsuits related to its manufacture of asbestos. Most of the problems began in World War II, when thousands of shipyard workers were exposed to asbestos. They later developed serious lung diseases and cancer. Manville is now operating under the protection of the bankruptcy laws, and its profits are insulated from legal claims while it tries to negotiate settlements of the suits. Union Carbide has strongly denied that it is even considering filing for bankruptcy...
...cost of living adjustment (COLA). Those who would be affected include 2.6 million federal retirees and their dependents, who belong to the Government's military and civil service pension plans. Likewise, the 21.5 million recipients of food stamps, as well as smaller benefit programs like aid to black-lung sufferers, would lose their protection against inflation for a year. The saving generated by this one-year "pause" in COLA growth compounded through 1988 would total $13.2 billion...