Word: toxicities
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...very tragic," says Wen Bo, China co-director for the NGO Pacific Environment. "It's more evidence that the oil companies are not prepared for such an ecological crisis." The accident mirrors a 2005 explosion that released 100 tons of toxic benzene into the Songhua river in northeastern China, tainting the water supply for several million residents of the city of Harbin. While that disaster helped sparked new public awareness of the extent of the nation's water pollution, the lessons of 2005 are still being painfully relearned today.(See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...included, as is the verb form of friend (as in friending or unfriending someone). App - as a shortened word for application - is another offender. And at the end of a rough financial year, much of the jargon of economic pain has run its course: In these economic times, toxic assets and too big to fail have no place in 2010. (See the top 10 buzzwords...
...Shovel-ready 2. Transparent/Transparency 3. Czar 4. Tweet 5. App 6. Sexting 7. Friend as a verb 8. Teachable Moment 9. In These Economic Times ... 10. Stimulus 11. Toxic Assets 12. Too Big to Fail 13. Bromance 14. Chillaxin' 15. Obama as a prefix...