Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed, so far, to topple the federal tyranny of lead-free gas. But a distinctly raunchy odor arises from the cynical proposed gutting of the 1972 Clean Water Act--gutting decreed on order, to precise stipulations of industry lobbyists--by Republicans who run the House Subcommittee on Water and the Environment...
...Tokyo subways, immediately denied any involvement. Thousands of commuters poured out of the station, jamming sidewalks and streets, while sirens wailed and about 10 police helicopters circled overhead. Police, firefighters and chemical weapons experts, some wearing gas masks, were checking the station for the source of a foul chemical odor. (A college student told the Associated Press she saw firefighters clad removing 20 or 30 small cardboard boxes from the station.) Officials said sarin, the nerve gas used in the Tokyo attack, was not suspected because the victims' symptoms were different. People affected by the fumes today complained of stinging...
...morning." Dorothy Wang '97, a Leverett resident, "stood in the bathroom for half an hour after finishing with the shower because it was warm in there." Some, like an anonymous resident of Dunster House, where the hot water was shut off temporarily, decided to flaunt their natural odor and "didn't take a shower that...
LEON: Dead Ducks The odor of death hangs over the artificial lake near this Mexican industrial city where 25,000 migrating waterfowl have died since mid- December. Water samples from the Silva Reservoir show high concentrations of the pesticide endosulfan, though local farmers and tanneries in the area deny using the chemical. As officials search for clues, the National Water Commission patrols the reservoir in a boat equipped with a siren, and volunteers set off fireworks to scare waterfowl away. Though the water has been declared dangerous for use in homes and in some kinds of agriculture, farmers continue...
...with the Simpson proceedings, a circus odor envelops the grand jury examining Cowlings' connection to the O.J. affair. Last week a man named John Dunton was jailed for refusing to testify. Dunton, who had earlier gone on television claiming that two men killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman and that a private eye hired to follow Nicole witnessed the murders, now said he would be killed if he talked. Anthony Pellicano, the private investigator who worked for Michael Jackson amid the pop star's tangle with child-abuse allegations, then emerged to deny that he was the private eye Dunton...