Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Speakes, along with State Department Spokesman Charles Redman, who spearheaded the major development of the month, a new offensive against the Soviet Union. In a makeshift press room, the Administration's mouthpiece announced U.S. plans to test an anti-satellite weapon and charged that Soviet agents have used a toxic dust to track American diplomats in Moscow...
...with a profit slump that has persisted ever since. Then this past December came the leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a plant in Bhopal, India, which killed 2,500 people and provoked more than $100 billion in lawsuits. Last month Union Carbide fell deeper into trouble when a toxic leak in Institute, W. Va., sent 135 people to the hospital and prompted an additional $88 million in suits. Now Union Carbide faces a potential assault by corporate raiders who hope that the company is too distracted by its other woes to put up a struggle...
...remain in their seats. But before the pilot, co-pilot and four flight attendants could begin to evacuate the plane, choking smoke, billowing up from the back of the aircraft, enveloped the cabin. Passengers in the rear section are believed to have been overcome immediately by smoke and the toxic fumes that result when polyurethane seat coverings, acrylic carpeting and plastic foam in the seats catch fire. Unlike the lucky few passengers on the JAL flight, for whom rear seats proved a lifesaver, passengers seated in the back of Flight KT 328 never had the slimmest chance of escape...
...North Cambridge research firm, located at 25 Acora Park, has been resting small amounts of toxic chemicals, for the Department of Defense since the fall...
...This decision upholds a city's power to reasonably regulate entities including defense contracts and to protect its citizens form the potential hazards that could result from the testing of super toxic chemicals," Cambridge's chief executive said...