Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month along with more generous income tax deductions than other Israelis receive. Evacuation ought to be financially easier for many southerners, but they are as bitter about it as Israelis in the north. Says Shimon Eluz, 35, a painting contractor who settled near Sharm el Sheikh because he loved skin diving in the deep-blue waters: "It seems to me that Israel paid a high price for the chance to get peace. Why should we give up all of Sinai? God forbid, Sadat can take back everything and then stab a knife in our backs...
...Sheraton Boston hotel is not much of a place to call home. Depending on your socio-political dispositions, you are likely to emerge from a week of captivity there with either double-knit skin and a superficial handshake or with a clear antipathy towards good order and government...
...vast majority of middle-class whites vigorously rejected the validity of all the tenents of the MOVE ideology. The blacks, however, were much more receptive--that is why 300 of them hurled bricks at the police shortly after the shoot-out. The reasons, again, go deeper than simply skin color. Whites can hardly be expected to accept social criticism as readily as blacks, who have long borne the onus of American capitalism. It logically follows that whites would therefore disagree more fervently with a group such as MOVE when the group points an accusing finger at the laws, philosophy...
...have since suffered many of the same symptoms as the Vietnamese. Veterans describe eating in sprayed areas, and climbing through jungles dripping with the herbicide. Their children have the same birth defects as the Vietnamese children and the veterans themselves complained of recurring dizziness and nausea, weight loss and skin disease--other common symptoms of dioxin poisoning...
More ominous are reports from citizen groups emphasizing the dioxin's human toll. Friends of the Earth, an environmental group based in Washington, D.C., has collected over 500 cases of injury which occurred after spraying. Many involve dizziness, nausea and skin diseases, symptoms of dioxin exposure. In most cases, their problems ceased when the affected individuals left the sprayed areas...