Word: toxication
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...confidential letter written in 1965, during a time when the Government was purchasing millions of pounds of Agent Orange, Dow's toxicology director wrote to another Dow official that dioxin "is exceptionally toxic; it has tremendous potential for producing chloracne [an ugly skin disease] and systemic injury. . . I trust that you will be very judicious in your use of this information. It could be quite embarrassing if it were misinterpreted or misused." A postscript added, "Under no circumstances may this letter be reproduced, shown or sent to anyone outside...
...effort, for an additional 2½ years. Yet the Pentagon is on record as having ordered Agent Orange from Dow and others specifically on the basis that it would not be harmful to humans. Military leaders said they only learned that the herbicide contained the highly toxic dioxin in 1970, when Dow told them...
...keep an eye on state government University officials have worked with state government leaders, many of whom served as faculty in Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. But a couple of box local ressues have given them troubles such as anima' resting at the Medical School, and the toxic that other researchers produce in then work...
Ruckelshaus, who was the EPA's first administrator from 1970 to 1973, has issued new standards of conduct for relations with industry representatives, called for a uniform policy for assessing and coping with the risks of toxic chemicals, and stanched the budget cuts that critics charged were crippling enforcement programs. The new director has impressed White House officials, even the few who were initially reluctant to bring him aboard. "It's a measure of how much Reagan needed Bill," a friend of Ruckelshaus points out, "because he knew he was going to have to take Jill...
...them in a movie line I'm gonna put the majority of my foot up his moral butt"). Murphy can do creepily precise parodies of Bill Cosby, Stevie Wonder and the Mandinka-coiffed Mr. T. If venom rather than vinegar laced these creations, they would prove too toxic for the TV audience. But behind them is the impish good will of a little boy exercising his craft, cadging merrily for laughs...