Word: toxication
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...education and opportunity than ever, but it's all spent on choosing the right brand of apple juice? All the ambition gets channeled into the nursery school committee. And sometimes that's great. But it is not really sufficiently fulfilling. So you end up having this kind of toxic stew where your actual activity doesn't match your ambition. And there's all this sort of intense pressure on the children because you've made some huge professional sacrifice. The people for whom you've made this sacrifice - well they goddamn better be worth...
...official: our minivan is a toxic asset...
...doesn't have the history of the Mekong, the spirituality of the Ganges or the sheer power of the Yangtze. But in November 2005, this 1,200-mile (2,000 km) waterway made headlines when a chemical plant in the Chinese city of Jilin spilled massive amounts of the toxic chemical benzene, creating a 50-mile (80 km) noxious slick. The chemicals oozed toward the sea, and Chinese cities that drank from the Songhua were forced to cut off supplies, leaving millions to fend for themselves. As the slick passed over the border to the Russian city of Khabarovsk...
...getting bad tissue reactions—nerve and muscle injuries,” said Daniel S. Kohane, one of the senior authors and an associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. “The compounds we use tend to have little or no direct neurotoxic or muscle-toxic effects...
...Obama's financial plan could come crashing down. There is a minirebellion going on right now among executives, from JPMorgan Chase & Co. to Chrysler, who don't want to take government loans because they won't be able to gorge on their usual bonuses. "The plan to buy up toxic assets is going to evolve very slowly, if at all," an investment banker told me. "The banks don't want to take the haircut, and the hedge-fund managers" - who would partner with the government to buy the assets - "are afraid that if they start making big money on this...