Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The problem is much bigger than the U.S. The whole industrialized world is getting polluted, and emerging nations are unlikely to slow their own development in the interest of clearer air and cleaner water. The fantastic effluence of affluence is overwhelming natural decay-the vital process that balances life in...
Industry already devours water on a vast scale-600,000 gal. to make one ton of synthetic rubber, for example-and the resultant hot water releases the dissolved oxygen in rivers and lakes. This kills the oxygen-dependent bacteria that degrade sewage. Meanwhile, the country's ever-mounting sewage...
Eshkol's cabinet, meantime, is divided over how much of the occupied territory it will be willing to bargain over in any negotiations, some wanting to return none at all and others willing to give part; nobody wants to give it all back. The results of a poll by...
Union President Beirne, who had been predicting an "overwhelming win," seemed to be moving closer to a settlement at week's end. And he needed one to get himself off the hook.
Cambridge Visiting Nurses and the Department of Public Health are exceptions. The overwhelming attitude of social and public service in Cambrige, particularly welfare, is that the initiative belongs to the doctor in these matters coupled with the abiding faith that he will give service.