Word: swamping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Meredith; he was shot in the shoulder for his protective pains. Yet he seems criminally naive about race relations in the South. In a luncheonette he quizzes a young black; that night the youth is tortured. Ward's way is to send his agents wading solemnly through a Jessup swamp in their dark gray suits, looking for all the world like a lost patrol of Blues Brothers. The result is only frustration and conflagration, as Negro churches, schools, shacks go up in flames. Anderson, a native Mississippian, knows how to talk to the natives: threaten the men, seduce the women...
...environmental exploitation of poor countries by the rich. It also represents the single most irresponsible and reckless way to get rid of the growing mountains of refuse, much of it poisonous, that now bloat the world's landfills. Indiscriminate dumping of any kind -- in a New Jersey swamp, on a Haitian beach or in the Indian Ocean -- simply shifts potentially hazardous waste from one place to another. The practice only underscores the enormity of what has become an urgent global dilemma: how to reduce the gargantuan waste by-products of civilization without endangering human health or damaging the environment...
...country is still struggling to clean up the mess created by the indiscriminate dumping of toxic waste. Said David Rall, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: "In the old days, waste was disposed of anywhere you wanted -- an old lake, a back lot, a swamp...
freeboard: the three inches of the shell above the surface of the water. Shells are notoriously easy to swamp with such little protection from rough water or the wakes of passing motorboats...
...hazardous chemicals to inform workers of the dangers. In August 1987, under court order, the hazard communication standard (HCS) was expanded to cover 70 million employees of 4.5 million companies that merely use the chemicals. The paperwork to inform so many people of every conceivable peril is enough to swamp some small businesses; florists, for instance, may need ten to 20 pieces of paper per petal that has been treated with chemicals by their suppliers. OSHA official Frank White stoutly defends the HCS. But last week he conceded at a congressional hearing, "Perhaps we underestimated, as we sometimes...