Word: smog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stay ahead of carbon dioxide, smog and other human waste, if translate jungles of concrete into jungles of evergreen. Henry Ratliff...
...Agrarians were to farming what pastoral poetry is to real sheep, and Agrarianism was simply the flag under which they marched against the forces of modernity. In 1930, as they sniffed the first whiff of smog at their writing desks in a university founded on the wealth of a New York railroad baron, the essayists of I'll Take My Stand shared, as Warren put it, a "dire suspicion" "that a great commonwealth has gone wrong." The enemy was industrialism, which they characterized as "an evil dispensation" and "a pizen snake." The issue was an intensely personal matter, almost...
Calling such indoor smog an emerging health problem, the Comptroller General has cited half a dozen harmful substances detected in unusual quantities in super-sealed buildings. Among them: carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide, both byproducts of smoking, gas stoves and leaky furnaces; the radioactive gas radon, which results from the natural decay of radium, an element found in soil, rocks and other building materials; and numerous particles of dust, soot and asbestos...
...long parade of limousines and buses knifed through Peking's wintry smog just before 3 p.m. As police and soldiers kept away curious bystanders, sober-faced men and women emerged from the cars, strode through the gates of the public security compound at No. 1 Zhengyi (Justice) Road near Tian'anmen Square and entered a large, brightly lighted courtroom. After taking their seats, the 35 judges and 880 "representatives of the masses" looked on impassively as the ten defendants were led into the court by bailiffs to hear the charges against them...
...Mount St. Helens as wreaking more havoc than auto exhausts, leading to a joke in the Reagan press corps about "the attack of the killer trees." Such nonsense has reduced his credibility in this field. Still, as Governor, he earned respect in California by upholding rigid water-pollution and smog-control laws and by protecting an additional 145,000 acres of park lands from private commercial use. In any clash between energy development and the environment, however, Reagan would be expected to give priority to energy. Carter's priorities seem the reverse, although he, too, is a supporter of nuclear...