Word: noxiousness
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...while Hertz defended de Man's character, hecriticizted his published views. "The article saidthere was something noxious about the Jewishpresence. That is clearly offensive. But the pointis the de Man I knew was a decent and admirablefigure," Hertz said
...ranging from $477,000 for Ford to $2.59 million for IBP, were the highest ever levied by OSHA, but the penalties posed little financial hardship for the companies. Critics, including many union leaders, charge that OSHA is not taking enough action to combat the hazards of dangerous equipment and noxious chemicals that can lead to ailments, injuries and deaths. "OSHA laws are supposed to improve a worker's chance of getting home safely to his family," says Davitt McAteer, director of the Occupational Safety and Health Law Center, a public-interest law firm in Washington. "But the worker has less...
Words, words, words. A new store selling packaged bullshit. Can't tell a book by its cover; can't tell a word by its letter, and what is anti-bullshit when all there is is bullshit (and particularly noxious fecal matter at that) and when placed in the great libretto that is the music of life, continues to sound long after the last Existential note is played out, long after the Fat Lady got water on the lung (Rho row roe your boat!) from holding the final C for so long while I tried to come up with something...
...movie is a series of stupid riddles like this, passed off as remarkable insights into the soul of man. Zed indeed takes place at a zoo, where two brothers work as animal behaviorists. Writer and director Peter Greenaway uses this setting as an excuse to pursue noxious surrealist puzzles, revolving around such contradistinctive concepts as black/white, death/life, healing/torture...
...male and female workers at five AT&T manufacturing plants around the U.S., a "clean room" is the low-humidity, highly sanitized workplace where noxious chemicals are used to make silicon wafers into microchips. Yet the clean rooms may be anything but. Last week AT&T disclosed that 15 pregnant employees who worked in those production areas had been warned about a sharply increased risk of miscarriage. When the company "strongly recommended" that they transfer to new jobs, at least until after they had given birth, all complied...