Word: shocks
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...about "methyl isocyanate," and how the pressure built up in a storage tank too rapidly for the "scrubber" to neutralize the gas that escaped into the atmosphere. Even a tragedy becomes a moment in technology, as if we feel compelled to advance knowledge at the same time we experience shock and grief. But acquiring information also serves as a deflection of feeling. In the long run we remember people like ourselves, drowned in the air by an enemy that was supposed to be an ally...
Rajiv Gandhi, who succeeded his mother Indira as Prime Minister after her assassination in October, broke off his campaigning for the Dec. 24 national elections to visit Bhopal. Expressing his shock and sorrow, Gandhi announced a $4 million relief fund. In addition, Arjun Singh, chief minister of Madhya Pradesh state, of which Bhopal is the capital, promised compensation of about $500 for every family that had suffered a death and $100 for every family that had a member hospitalized. President Reagan sent Gandhi a note expressing the grief shared by him and the American people...
...Bhopal disaster came as a shock to the chemical industry because Union Carbide is noted for its safety concerns. Said Dan Edwards, director of health and safety for the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union: "The large chemical manufacturers have pretty good track records for health and safety, and I'd say Union Carbide is above average." Said Hugh Kaufman, a hazardous-waste specialist at the Environmental Protection Agency: "I'm not surprised that something like this happened, but I am surprised that it was Union Carbide...
...much the way that paraplegics learn to accept their wheelchairs. To date, Schroeder's good humor has been strained only once, when he took part in a series of experiments last Monday. Doctors first injected him with Isuprel, Neo-Synephrine and Nitroprusside, three drugs frequently used to treat shock or high blood pressure. The chemicals are known to affect both the heart and the flow of blood through arteries, veins and capillaries, but researchers had never before been able to watch the drugs' effects on discrete parts of the circulatory system. Because the mechanical heart remains unaffected...
...seemed lyrically in love. The other leads, a fine Marcel (Howard McGillin) and a brilliant Musette (Cass Morgan), took fire from them. The night before, Ronstadt and her Rodolfo, David Carroll, had sung at and past each other without making contact, and the rest of the cast was in shock...