Word: regia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another of the six sites that EPA claims to have successfully cleaned is in Baltimore, where strong acids and aqua regia, one of the most corrosive liquids in existence, had been stored throughout the 1970s. For years, residents in 20 row houses along Annapolis Road complained of eye, nose and throat irritation; eight people were burned in July 1979 when chemicals leaked into a playing area. EPA removed 1,500 drums and scraped off up to twelve inches of topsoil. The land was sloped and sodded and declared fit for a playground. But critics cite tests showing that the contamination...
...York's wildlife enthusiasts were delighted to spot a rare specimen of Regia britannicus in their city last week. Britain's Prince Philip, 59, conservationist husband of Queen Elizabeth, nested in Manhattan just long enough to preside at a $400-a-person dinner benefiting the New York Zoological Society, lecture on wildlife preservation to 2,700 invited guests at Lincoln Center and adroitly dodge questions. At a press conference where he was descended upon by local newshawks (clearly an unendangered species), he stuck to the matter at hand. Asked for his view of the Iran-Iraq...