Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Overcoming denial is the first step in confronting addiction. We got into this state of toxic dependency on militarism through conscious choices, made all too often by opportunistic politicians and profit-hungry arms dealers. Getting out requires another set of choices; call it "planning" if you will. We can continue with the ghoulish fixation that condemns our nation to production-for-death. Or we can, through an open and democratic decision- making process, find some more life-affirming way to keep 3 million Americans employed...
...everybody in Hudspeth County concurs. Ever since an Oklahoma consortium, MERCO, announced plans to turn the old 128,000-acre ranch into a repository for millions of tons of New York City sewage, local ranchers and townsfolk have worried about toxic pollution spilling into their air, their soil and the waters of the nearby Rio Grande. But overall there was a strong show of support for the project, because MERCO offered 35 jobs and a $10,000 weekly payroll...
...growing numbers, financially desperate communities are making what seem like pacts with the devilish, opening their arms to garbage, toxic waste and nuclear refuse from distant states. Such trade-offs of trash for jobs seem certain to increase in number, given the growing crackdown by states on local landfills, impending EPA standards for construction of dumps and the recent Supreme Court decision prohibiting trash tariffs to discourage out-of-state dumping...
...Preparation Age -- Mad and Hell will even make a mud-pact with Satan. And you can bet the devil is a woman (Isabella Rossellini). Only the sodden man in their lives (Bruce Willis), a plastic surgeon turned makeup artist for the newly dead, has any understanding of the toxic wastes that lace the Fountain of Youth...
...other ruling involves worker safety: in 1989 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration limited workplace exposure to more than 400 toxic substances. But OSHA didn't make a separate case for each, as the law requires. Though that would have taken decades, an Atlanta court said the limits are invalid. Workers shouldn't panic: it's unlikely that companies that have spent millions to comply with osha's standards will now spend even more to have safeguards removed...