Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government has been planning to create gigantic, underground waste dumps where the deadly byproducts of nuclear-power and -weapons plants could be isolated. The Department of Energy is currently considering nine sites in six states for the high-level radioactive garbage. But since the material will remain toxic for thousands of years, the Department of Energy contracted a special 13-member study panel in 1980 to explore how future inhabitants of earth might be protected from hazardous waste sites. The Human Interference Task Force, a team of nuclear physicists, linguists, engineers, anthropologists and psychologists, has come up with a number...
...proposed nuclear freeze would only prevent the exacerbation of the atomic threat instead of actually alleviating the problem. Where do the Democrats propose to put the toxic waste? Decrease military spending and put it into education? Surveys show that the public is overwhelmingly opposed to significant military budget cuts, and it still believes that social spending should be deposed. There are no quick-fix solutions to America's problems, regardless of the public's desire to believe in them. Issues are not created by desperate political parties; they arise out of crisis...
Nearly 250,000 workers are being exposed to toxic chemicals that could cause cancer, heart problems and lung disease, according to studies by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Early detection of the ailments could prevent serious disability or death. The Centers for Disease Control asked for $4 million in the 1985 budget to notify vulnerable workers. But according to Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, the Reagan Administration rejected that request. In a letter to the President last week, Nader and Wolfe wrote, "The lame excuse offered...
...which has established a national hotline and helped coordinate FBI information on thousands of the nation's missing children. He authored legislation on amusement park safety; he was the chief sponsor of the Civil Rights Act of 1984; the co-author of an amendment to a toxic wastes bill that provides for the use of federal funds to clean up waste sites on federal lands, he chairs a House Subcommittee on Higher Education and has sponsored measures not only to improve public education curriculum but also to raise salaries for teachers...
...contrary Supreme Court ruling, to deny all federal funds to entire institutions, rather than just to the offending department or program, if discrimination is practiced. Killed, too, was a bill to renew and increase financing of the superfund program under which Washington helps states and localities clean up toxic-waste dumps. The fates of these bills will depend heavily on the unknown makeup of the next Congress and Administration...