Word: thresholds
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...billion. Digging out a single landfill the size of a tennis court at Norfolk cost $18 million, and there are 21 other identified sites. Removing 600 drums of buried toxic wastes at Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire cost $22 million. "We are only on the threshold in determining the bill," says Richard Jones, senior official on the Pease project. "In the cleanup business, you don't know what you don't know, and that can cost...
...dining room, the centerpiece of bourgeois Northeastern family life. What happens there? What kind of strange hypnotic force does it have over those that dare to cross its threshold? Why has this American tradition survived so long...
Officers have the right to perform "threshold inquiries"--to stop and question citizens--when they suspect a crime about to happen, Gedaminsky says...
...common belief among the pepperati nowadays is that a dose of hot chile, while not strictly medicinal, stimulates the senses and clears the mind, prodding the palate to the threshold between pleasure and pain. There are even some aficionados who tell of a "chile high," produced by the body's endorphins in reaction to the sting of the pepper...
Hence the never-ending paradox: some bedrock of honesty is fundamental to society; people cannot live together if no one is able to believe what anyone else is saying. But there also seems to be an honesty threshold, a point beyond which a virtue turns mean and nasty. Constantly hearing the truth, the cold, hard, brutal unsparing truth, from spouses, relatives, friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. "Human kind," as T.S. Eliot wrote, "cannot bear very much reality." Truth telling makes it possible for people to coexist; a little lying makes such society tolerable...