Word: odore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state of Iowa plans to take legal action early next year against any citizen who would "allow, cause, or permit the emission of objectionable odors into the atmosphere." But what is the legal definition of an objectionable odor? The six members of the state's air-pollution-control commission have been pondering that question, and at one meeting they even spent the better part of an hour debating whether an objectionable odor exists if no one is there to smell it. They decided that it does...
...more practical terms, the commissioners decided that an objectionable odor is legally objectionable if it lasts more than three hours, if it occurs more than once in three months, and if it is offensive to 30% of at least 30 randomly selected residents of an area...
...these residents accurate judges? The commissioners tested themselves, sniffing wintergreen and amyl acetate (which smells like bananas) to see if they could tell the difference. They could. So they decided to give similar tests and to create a cadre of "trained noses." When a citizen complains about an odor, a jury of tested state employees will rush out to sniff and then decide if the law has been violated...
...this year acquired 50 companies in 16 states and Canada, making it the fastest-grow-ing garbage concern in the country. Its revenues reached $51 million in 1972's first nine months. In Pompano Beach, Fla., the company operates an advanced processing plant in which garbage is ground into odor-free shreds and sent by conveyor belt to a nearby landfill...
...present system is a scandal, perhaps the fatal flaw in American democracy," declares Los Angeles Fund Raiser Harold Willens. "It's the nastiest thing in all of politics, and it may destroy our whole political system," contends Missouri Judge George W. Lehr. "There's a smell, an odor about it, and unless things change the system cannot survive," insists Larry O'Brien, campaign manager for George McGovern. Says Senator Edward Kennedy: "It is the most flagrant single abuse in our democracy, the unconscionable power of money...