Word: thresholds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decades of anti-Semitism, lost opportunity and discrimination. You have suffered all your life in a country that did not want you, but did not let you leave--until now. But as you are carried into the arms of religious freedom and democracy, you are suddenly dropped on the threshold. You have been delivered to the Holy Land, but you have no money, no job and no home...
Since then, however, a lot more has been learned about how dioxin affects the body. As a result, some scientists believe dioxin and other chemicals may trigger cancer only if a certain threshold amount is present -- and that amount could be well over 1,000 times as great as the safety limit, i.e., above the level of most of the contamination at Times Beach. If so, the government has reason to amend its regulations on many compounds in addition to dioxin. One of the biggest beneficiaries would be the paper industry, which is under pressure to reduce the level...
...same as they were 10 years ago, but the proportion of dark-skinned, poor Africans and Arabs in Western Europe is significantly higher now. Even though the overall numbers are not increasing, E.C. governments have decided they have reached the saturation point -- what French President Francois Mitterrand calls "the threshold of tolerance...
...over the next 30 years, those on the African south coast will rise more than 100 million. The numbers add up to an inescapable conclusion: if Europe is to find workers for all its industries and services in the years soon to come, it will have to raise its threshold of racial tolerance...
...breakup of the Bell Telephone System more than seven years ago appeared to place the industry at the threshold of a quantum leap into the Information Age. But the telephone companies were legally barred from the computerized- data business. Last month U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene brought the future closer by freeing the Baby Bells to use their phone lines to provide such services as electronic Yellow Pages and home shopping...