Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...November's election. Although the state went to George W. Bush in the presidential race, coloring it red on the electoral maps, it also chose its first Democratic Governor since 1984, broke the G.O.P.'s hold on the state legislature and backed a pair of progressive ballot initiatives banning toxic mining practices and legalizing medical marijuana...
Radon is not the only indoor public-health hazard that has increased because of the pursuit of energy efficiency. The EPA reported in June that eleven toxic air pollutants may pose a threat in the average home, where they are believed to be generated by common household products and building materials. Prior to the report, Democratic Senators Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and George Mitchell of Maine and Republican Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont introduced the Indoor Air Quality Research Act, which calls for further examination of the hazards of radon and other indoor air pollutants...
Case in point: halfway through the film, Dirk utters something like “Obviously the contaminants are coming from the source of the underground river.” Yes, obviously. Or my favorite: “Those barrels of toxic waste over there are being taken away to be evaporated by super-conductive solar power.” Clearly...
...heart would pound. But once the food had been devoured, I would be overcome with an urgent need to separate myself from it before it took up residence inside me. Nothing could have stood in the way of my getting rid of it, differentiating myself from it--from the toxic bulk that had seemed so like a mother's nurture in the beginning--because if it remained within me, I knew that my life would be snuffed out. Afterward I would collapse into bed and sink into a numbed sleep. Tomorrow will be different. It never was. What an illusion...
...There has been a fair amount of covert gloating in the liberal community over the congressional Republican flameout. Senator Bill Frist's ridiculous videotape diagnosis of the stricken woman, DeLay's toxic effusions, the President's unseemly dash to Washington to sign the Schiavo legislation all found their just rewards in the polls that revealed an overwhelming public disgust with the political shenanigans. But Democrats would be wise to stow their satisfaction and give careful consideration to what thoughtful conservatives are saying about the role of the judiciary in our public life because the issue is about...