Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiny minority of Viet Nam veterans were exposed to Agent Orange. Yet the Veterans Administration's handling of the issue has ranged from indifferent to slipshod, and serves for the veterans as a vivid example of Government callousness. Dioxin, the toxic ingredient in Agent Orange, has been linked with skin diseases, birth defects and cancer. Yet, according to reports last month by both the General Accounting Office and the Office of Technology Assessment, the VA has been inexcusably reluctant to study the effects of Agent Orange and has provided only cursory, inadequate medical exams...
NASA is now conducting an experiment to see if photographs can help to trace from space the spread of toxic pollutants in San Francisco...
...Federal Government sharply curtailed a program to poison the ubiquitous barking little rodents because the toxic agents were also killing other animals. As a result, the prairie dogs are proliferating. In South Dakota (pop. 690,000), there are believed to be 15 times as many prairie dogs as people. Ranchers have filed suit to force Washington to resume its tough anti-prairie dog policies. Even environmental groups like the Sierra Club admit that there is a need for at least a limited control effort...
...dead as he could be without being dead," according to Surgeon Frank Veith of Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. Wilson, 25, a landscaper and father of four, was spraying weeds with the herbicide paraquat on Aug. 30, when the equipment apparently malfunctioned and he accidentally inhaled the toxic chemical. Paraquat lodges in the muscle tissue and travels in the blood to the lungs, where it does continual damage as long as it remains in the body. After steadily declining in a Florida hospital, Wilson was transferred to Montefiore in a final effort to save his life. There, doctors...
...Superfund Legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my Administration...