Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy smoke-protection gear that the company knew did not work as intended. Since 1981 the Navy has purchased more than 450,000 of Scott's Emergency Escape Breathing Devices, hoodlike units that fit over the head and neck to provide breathable air while blocking the entry of toxic fumes. They are now used on virtually all naval vessels except submarines...
...results demonstrate the need to regulate asbestos differently in this country, Talcott said. Unlike many nations, the United States treats all types of toxic asbestos as if they were the same, he said...
...There is enough evidence that [crocidolite] should be regulated differently," Talcott said. "Our study supports the belief that it is more toxic than other types of asbestos...
...have found a better way to make transplants succeed. Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, the world's largest transplant center, is expected to report in the British journal Lancet this week that a new drug, FK-506, is proving to be more powerful and less toxic than cyclosporine. In more than 100 patients taking FK-506 for up to eight months, the rate of organ rejection was only one-sixth as high as in those using cyclosporine. Side effects were minimal, though long-term consequences remain unknown. The Food and Drug Administration calls the preliminary research "very...
...concern limited to the First World. A treaty signed in Basel, Switzerland, in March limits what poorer nations call toxic terrorism -- use of their lands by richer countries as dumping grounds for industrial waste. And on Sept. 7 more than 100 member states of the nonaligned movement dispensed with their past denunciations of the U.S. and instead called for "a productive dialogue with the developed world" on "protection of the environment." As if heeding that appeal, on Sept. 11, at an international environmental conference in Tokyo, Japan's new Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu affirmed a pledge that his country would...