Word: superfund
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defense contractor that made fuel tanks for World War II fighter planes, it serves about 2,000 students, mostly poor, mostly minority. But across the street is the former home of a chrome-plating shop, a site so hazardous that it is scheduled for cleanup under the federal Superfund program. During construction of the school, it was discovered that the soil and groundwater under the building were contaminated with hexavalent chromium, a tasteless, odorless and colorless toxin. Exposure through food, air or drinking water can cause skin rashes, kidney and liver ailments and--at high enough levels--brain damage...
...there are substantial differences. While most candidates are pitching themselves as "fighters," I have actually gone to Washington and fought to get a piece of legislation through Congress--the landmark Superfund law which paid for the clean-up of toxic waste sites all across the nation...
...pass the Superfund legislation in the 1980s, we had to organize a national grass-roots coalition of more than 1,000 organizations to overcome the objections of Ronald Reagan and a Republican Senate. The primary lesson I learned from that battle was that power comes from the exercise of collective action. It is this belief in what people can do when they work together, and my personal experiences mobilizing and organizing, which I hope to bring to Washington...
...feeling like we were the only people in the country who hadn't profited from the stock market boom, a month ago a bunch of friends and I decided to scrape together some money so we could get in on the action. Christening our makeshift investment club the Kirkland SuperFund (KSF), it wasn't long before we'd opened an account with one of the low-fee internet brokerage houses and started talking about how to allocate our $2,000 war chest...
...been a Federal Superfund site since 1989 because of groundwater contamination involving chemical and radioactive waste