Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest ricocheted around Congress. By the time the scandal subsided, more than 20 Reagan Administration appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency had resigned under pressure. Last week one was found guilty in court: Rita Lavelle, former head of the agency's $1.6 billion Superfund to clean up toxic wastes, was convicted of perjury and obstructing a congressional investigation...
...reversed the EPA's policy on paying to clean up toxic-waste sites out of the $1.6 billion superfund that Congress appropriated for that purpose. Under Lavelle, the Government dickered endlessly with industry over who would bear the cost. Meanwhile, the dumps festered. Ruckelshaus' policy is "Clean now, worry about who pays later...
...years ago, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig publicly accused the Soviet Union of conducting chemical warfare by proxy in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia. According to the State Department, the Soviet Union was manufacturing substances with the highly toxic chemical tricothecene mycotoxin and selling it to its allies for use against "resistance fighters" in those areas of the world. In addition, the U.S. government has reports from members of the Hmong tribe in Laos who claim to have seen this chemical dropped in the form of "yellow rain" from airplanes. If these charges are correct, the Soviet Union would...
Schwartzstein: That's true. And neither do toxic substances come out of bees...
Meselson: I would use it to mean the alleged agent of toxic warfare in Southeast Asia. The test of a good definition is whether it applies consistently to something out in the real world. In this case there is such a test. It is this: There have been sixteen cases of which I'm aware where people have brought samples of something to embassy officials--the U.S. embassy, the Canadian embassy, the Australian embassy--or Thai government officials, United Nations officials, British officials. Every one, with no exception, turned out to be pollen, but people alleged that this...