Word: noxiousness
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...owned, employ more than 500,000 Mexican workers. Not only has the shifting of the facilities to Mexico cost some Americans their jobs, but lax environmental standards and poorly enforced regulations have turned large stretches of the 2,000-mile border into toxic cesspools. Maquiladoras are blamed for the noxious brown cloud that often overhangs El Paso, Juarez and other cities, as well as for the foul wastes that flow into the Rio Grande...
...forward motion, as happens early in this big, messy, off-and-on brilliant novel, Powers tends to go for flash. He sets off skyrockets, then more skyrockets. Great, arcing bursts of language streak across not just pages but whole chapters. (On pollution: "Maroon-brown patinas of condensing air . . . the noxious residue, the breakdown skeins of hydrocarbon linkages . . .") Then, before the afterimage can fade, the bedazzled firmament detonates again in grander, wilder colors. Great stuff, the reader thinks, and does anyone have an aspirin...
...lower Manhattan skyscraper that houses, of all things, the New York offices of the FBI. Other explosions the same day in the Holland and Lincoln tunnels under the Hudson River, crushing motorists inside cars turned to twisted junk, killing many more by spreading intense heat, smoke and noxious fumes throughout the enclosed space of the tubes. Thousands dead, thousands more injured, the nation's biggest city in a wild panic...
...manager of the central College kitchen prompted complaints from his employees when he hired only men to clean the kitchen over Spring Break. Berry reversed the decision and reprimanded the manager, who said he was trying protect his female employees from the "noxious fumes" of cleaning chemicals...
...manager, David Lentine, had cited the danger to his female employees of "noxious fumes" from the chemicals used to clean the kitchen over the vacation. Lentine's decision to employ only male workers over the holiday was later reversed...