Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lagakos' work focusses on statistically tracing the progress of illnesses. In 1984 he conducted a study of leukemia in Woburn with Zelen. Their work has been cited as an important piece of evidence in a toxic waste suit, which is currently in trial. Lagakos could not be reached for comment...
...tractors. His estranged wife and her mother slouch around their dreary house staring at TV. Brad Jr. (Sean Penn) is searching for something worth spending his teenage energy on: maybe his lay-about friends, maybe that cute 16-year-old he's just met (Mary Stuart Masterson), maybe the toxic dream of emulating his old man. You've got to act, Brad. So be a thief and impress your friends. Join your dad's gang; make him proud. Buy your girlfriend a necklace and watch her eyes pop. Be a man and try not to look back at that trail...
...explosion released a cloud of toxic vapor that left nearly 60 base employees suffering from eye and skin irritations. The more lasting damage may be to the U.S. space program. The loss of a second Titan left the U.S. with no reliable way to launch heavy payloads into orbit. The Pentagon is already reduced to operating with only one reconnaissance satellite, rather than the two that military planners deem necessary. If that single eye in the sky should malfunction, U.S. intelligence in space would be blinded...
...August, the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration began to investigate Union Carbide, after a leak of the toxic chemical Aldicarb at the company's Institute, W. Va., plant left 141 people hospitalized. Last week OSHA levied a $1.4 million fine against the Danbury, Conn.-based firm for "willful disregard for health and safety" at the Institute plant. It was the largest penalty imposed by OSHA in its 16-year history...
Although the complex trial will call on dozens of expert witnesses and last up to eight months, it will be watched closely elsewhere in the country where residents face contamination of belowground drinking water from toxic wastes. Throughout the nation, decades of careless disposal of industrial wastes have resulted in water that is unsafe to drink...