Word: noxiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state's present leaders would have it no other way. To them, the force is an admirably efficient defender of Mississippi's traditional way of life. Under different leadership the patrol could doubtless become both fairer and more professional. Alabama troopers, for example, achieved an equally noxious reputation under Governor George Wallace, but they have performed far differently since he left the statehouse. The members of the Mississippi patrol are much like policemen everywhere, says Charles Morgan, Southeastern director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "They do what is expected of them or tolerated by their superiors-nothing...
...stay aloof from change." Wherever man has settled in the great land, he has left an ugly mark. Anchorage, rimmed on three sides by mountains, has air-pollution problems like those of Los Angeles. In Fairbanks, ice fogs mix with smoke and auto exhaust to produce a particularly noxious result, and the Chena River, which splits the city, is a sewer. In the desolate village of Eek (pop. 182), sewage disposal is impossible because the water table is practically level with the ground. The only flush toilet in town is disconnected. Human
...with dire predictions also had their say. Some argued that the oceans will be as "dead" as Lake Erie by the end of the century unless remedial action on an international scale is taken to halt pollution. If present trends to use the Mediterranean as the ultimate receptacle of noxious waste continue, Arvid Pardo said, its fishing industry will disappear in a few years. Swedish Ecologist Bengt Lundholm reported that only 14% of Italy's seacoast is now free of pollution. Dr. Jerold M. Lowenstein, a physician specializing in nuclear medicine, warned that radioactive wastes from an ever increasing...
...Another noxious effluent of power plants is sulfur oxide, a key air pollutant that has been linked with respiratory ailments in man. After studying the SOL, problem, a panel of industrial engineers and chemists from the National Academy of Engineering of the National Research Council glumly reported: "Contrary to widely held opinions, commercially proven technology available for control of sulfur oxides from combustion processes does not exist." If no immediate action is taken, the engineers added, the amount of sulfur in the air will increase more than fourfold by the end of the century...
...hole golf course. Some farmers, their fields chewed to stubble, have been forced to feed their sheep by hand. Set out in barnyards, baited, water-filled drums fill up with as many as 1,000 drowned mice a night. Yet so far not even Victoria's Vermin and Noxious Weeds Destruction Board has come up with a really effective solution. One woman whose supply of the Pill was eaten by mice only half jokingly proposed birth control as a long-range solution. Officials, however, were placing their faith in the first chill of the Australian winter-but that...