Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great toxic-waste mess oozed its way into the nation's consciousness, and its conscience, a little more than five years ago. "An environmental emergency," declared the Surgeon General in 1980. "A ticking time bomb primed to go off," warned the Environmental Protection Agency. The reaction was typically all-American: Congress created a grand-sounding "Superfund," a $1.6 billion, five-year crash program designed to clean up thousands of leaking dumps that were threatening to contaminate much of the nation's underground water supplies...
...literature to Marx's social engineering, psychoanalysis cut the classics to fit the couch, and professors of English gave their essays titles like "The Entropy of the Imagination." Today words like process, systems, positive and negative are plugged into common discourse like so many microchips. The result can be toxic to the imagination and mother tongue...
Especially in the first few weeks of freshman year, our home state plagues us, putting a chill on every budding relationship. Personally, I'd like to dump Garden State toxic waste all over the next person who uses that "What exit?" line on me again...
...rise in product-liability lawsuits, notably in the case of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device, has resulted in ballooning insurance rates for manufacturers. And Union Carbide's Bhopal disaster, which prompted more than $100 billion in lawsuits, has helped make toxic-pollution insurance virtually impossible for most chemical companies to obtain...
...company's public image were not blackened enough, Union Carbide suffered another toxic leak last week. A cloud of hydrochloric acid escaped from its South Charleston, W. Va., plant, briefly threatening 60,000 people attending an outdoor festival. But this time the company acted swiftly and efficiently. An emergency squad sprayed the chemical with water to dilute it, and no one was seriously injured. Union Carbide can only hope that last week's painful cutbacks will be just as effective...