Word: smells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Exposure to paint thinners and other solvents may cause a temporary loss of smell, memory or color vision as well as problems with maintaining balance. In some cases the toxic effects on the liver and kidneys are permanent, even after the offending solvents have been removed...
Quite a different sort of film made by Lancaster's company was the brilliantly brutal Sweet Smell of Success. Lancaster's J.J. Hunsecker, a Walter Winchell-type Broadway columnist with horn-rimmed glasses and an accountant's haircut, gets relatively little screen time; yet he dominates the cynical scenario as surely as Dracula does any vampire movie. Lancaster knew he needn't raise his voice to exude pestilence. There is capital punishment in his whisper, "You're dead, son. Get yourself buried...
...newer products invented by the financial-services industry, whose explosive growth is traced in Joseph Nocera's new book, A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. Words like product and industry are intended to give "financial services" the smell of a factory, where real things are made...
...onto the factory floor -- and rinsing them off with cold water. Poole claims she was so overworked that chicken parts sometimes sat on the floor for as long as half an hour. "Sometimes it stinks to high heaven, but who cares? Once it's frozen it ain't gonna smell bad. But I wouldn't want my family to eat that chicken," she says. If the chicken parts seemed bad, Poole was permitted to trim or condemn them. But "I got intimidated by supervisors if I threw too much into the condemned barrel," Poole says. "Supervisors get bonuses for saving...
...factory floor from where Poole used to work is Mearl Pipes, a 49- year-old sanitation employee who has toiled in the Tyson plant for nine years. This summer, at a meeting between employees and managers, says Pipes, "we asked why we're required to package chicken that smells bad, and they said the chicken can smell bad due to bacteria but it can still be of good quality. That's bull as far as I'm concerned." Tyson denies the charges of the workers, one of whom is a union organizer, but says an investigation will be launched...