Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...translated his popularity into programs, that he has failed to get the legislature to pass many of his initiatives. Says one Democratic official: "He never pushes the legislative leaders." The Governor, for example, has not been able to win support for a program to clean up toxic-waste sites around the state. Cuomo's detractors point out that the tax cut only lowers the maximum rate for personal income from 10% to 9%, and that New York still taxes and borrows more than any other large industrial state...
...that plastic trash is causing injury and death to countless marine animals that feast on it or become ensnared in it. Says Ecologist David Laist, of the Marine Mammal Commission: "Plastics may be as ! great a source of mortality among marine mammals as oil spills, heavy metals or other toxic materials...
Still other problems plague the researchers in their quest for an effective and non-toxic anti-viral drug--some of them not involving science. Groopman has encountered peculiar problems in the AZT study. "There is tremendous political pressure," Groopman says. He only has room for 20 patients while 60 AIDS and ARC patients want to take part in the experiment. So he will choose patients only on a "first-come, first serve basis...