Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happen is, people won't go by the rules when a serious situation comes up, they may completely avoid going to UHS just so they can avoid disciplinary action." UHS provides completely confidential help and has no part in discipline of students admitted with acute alcohol intoxication or other toxic drug effects. By not bringing a student in need of help to UHS, the only thing that students are avoiding is the reality of how serious the situation...
...subpoena will protect Wigand from legal action by B&W for breaking his nondisclosure contract. But even more explosive than Wigand's deposition could be the documents that the subpoena requests him to produce. Those papers supposedly include evidence that B&W altered its research into the carcinogenic, toxic or addictive effects of tobacco, as well as a diary Wigand kept while working there. Wigand, says Moore, has "wanted to tell the truth, and so far the people who were going to help him do it have folded." The trial could start by next summer in a Jackson County courthouse...
...site is more choked by red tape than Rocky Flats, in part because of its severe contamination problems. Plutonium is so toxic that inhaling a fraction of a gram can be fatal. At Rocky Flats there are 14 tons of this silver-gray metal spread all over the place. Aging buildings are tainted by plutonium spills from leaking pipes, valves and containers, and from compartments known as "infinity rooms" because their level of radioactivity is so high. Barrels of radioactive waste are stacked 15 ft. high. Fields contaminated with radioactive oil are covered by only a layer of asphalt...
...ahead and emptied the three problem plutonium tanks without upgrading the entire building, and he retrained just 12 workers instead of all 150. He slashed the number of signatures needed to get visitors into high-security areas from nine to three. Ignoring bureaucratic protocol, he and Kaiser-Hill excavated toxic soils from an area known as Ryan's Pit without preparing exhaustive studies. Silverman bristles at the seemingly arbitrary personnel rules he's supposed to follow. "Why does it take 16 people to move a single barrel from one building to another?" he asks rhetorically...
...spiritual leader of the Jewish extremists, it is the late Meir Kahane, the American-born founder of the militant, occasionally violent Jewish Defense League. Kahane moved his operations to Israel in the 1970s, where he began a political movement called Kach (Thus). It wasn't long before Kahane's toxic rhetoric fomented murder. In 1983, during a rally held by the Peace Now leftist group, a lone right-winger--not much different from Rabin's alleged assassin, Yigal Amir--threw a grenade into the crowd, killing one Israeli man. It was the first time since the nation was founded that...