Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Costle cited bureaucratic red tape as hindering regulation efforts for both beneficial and toxic chemicals...
Harvard and other medical schools should increase research on the prevention of disease from toxic substances, Douglas Costle '61, outgoing head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said yesterday in a speech at the School of Public Health...
Costle recommended that medical schools step up their training of students in the detection of the problems induced by such toxic substances as asbestos and pesticides...
...baked at 950° F until it turns into a nondescript gray button three inches in diameter. Such a button could be worth $100,000, for the job of this robot, which goes into regular operation in a few months, is transporting reprocessed plutonium, one of the most toxic substances known to man. Until now, this dangerous task has been done by men in elaborate space suits. The robot, which knows neither weariness nor boredom, also knows nothing of danger...
...impressive: plague, diphtheria, malaria, polio, smallpox, typhoid and yellow fever. Even cancer and heart disease at last seem to be yielding up their secrets to medical research. But in the past ten years, doctors have focused on a number of mysterious "new" ailments, notably Legionnaires' disease and toxic shock syndrome...