Word: toxication
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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...
...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...
...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...