Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disclosures, in fact, confirmed what investigators had first suspected several years ago, that there are really two Mafia groups working in the U.S.: one composed of the old families that began operating in the U.S. during Prohibition and later branched out into gambling, prostitution, labor rackeleering and, more recently, toxic-waste disposal, and the other a "branch office" established by one of the factions of the Sicilian Mafia. The Sicilian branch cooperated with the U.S. Mafia but did not take orders from...
What follows is a predictably heroic attempt by Stuart--the educated, urbanized outsider--to save the town from itself. He suspects that a toxic substance is causing the townspeople to repress the emotional mechanism designed to curb passions, literally lifting the lid off the id. His discoveries come--unsurprisingly--too late. The film's closing minutes play like a spinoff of The Stepford Wives...
Scientific researchers at Harvard and other local laboratories may someday have to gain municipal permission to test certain toxic substances if the city of Cambridge adopts the recommendations of its Scientific Advisory Committee...
Chalten called the latest order "part of a continuing process" in a legal struggle between the city and the company, which is under a Defense Department contract to develop an agent to neutralize nerve gas and other less toxic gases...
...current promotion of irradiation treatment is particularly troubling in light of contentions by some scientists that safer alternatives do exist. For example, diatomaceous earth used for years by some grain farmers is a non-toxic insecticide, with none of the side effects of irradiation...