Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protection policies are merely a way to avoid making the workplace safe for men and women equally. Feminists also dismiss them as discrimination masquerading as compassion, a disguised way of keeping women out of more lucrative men's jobs. Critics of the fetal-protection policies also point out that toxic substances in the workplace may damage genes in male sperm. "A man or woman working in a plant should be told the dangers and make up their own minds," says Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women...
...causing emissions from their coke ovens, as long as they take interim steps to reduce that pollution. Electric utilities in the Great Lakes region -- many of them affected by the new acid-rain rules -- fought off a proposal to require them to reduce their release of mercury and other toxic chemicals from coal-burning plants...
...environmental side, Gray showed his loyalty to the administration line on pollution policy by pushing for a "credits" program to reduce toxic emissions...
...system of credits will allow clean industrial plants whose toxic emissions are lower than federal regulations to sell their credits to firms not meeting federal standards, Gray said...
...setters, the Von Bulows seem positively Ruritanian -- starched anachronisms, prisoners of good taste when hardly anyone else bothers. So screenwriter Nicholas Kazan and director Barbet Schroeder have woven a cunningly old-fashioned artifice -- a drawing-room comedy with a toxic tinge ^ -- told from three points of view. Alan (Ron Silver) is the detective, groping for a truth he may never know or, knowing, accept. Claus (Jeremy Irons) is the cagey chameleon, resigned to a notoriety he also enjoys. "I'm wondering," Alan muses, "who you are," and Claus replies, "Who would you like me to be?" And Sunny (Glenn Close...