Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues are not that simple. While Americans have no reason to be terrified to sit down at the dinner table, they have every reason to demand significant improvements in food and water safety. They unwittingly and unwillingly ingest too much of too many dangerous chemicals. If food already contains natural carcinogens, it does not make much sense to add dozens of new man-made ones. Though most people will withstand the small amounts of contaminants generally found in food and water, at least a few individuals will probably get cancer one day because of what they eat and drink...
...make good food and water supplies even better, the Government needs to tighten its regulatory standards, stiffen its inspection program and strengthen its enforcement policies. The food industry should modify some long-accepted practices or turn to less hazardous alternatives. Perhaps most important, consumers will have to do a better job of learning how to handle and cook food properly. The problems that need to be addressed exist all along the food-supply chain, from fields to processing plants to kitchens...
...until they gleam like attributes of genius. He has his own tour bus, separate from the rest of the band and crew, "because I need windows," and because he rarely listens to music, which is in heavy supply aboard the other R.E.M. vehicles. He keeps a bottle of Evian water mixed with herbal powder close at hand and claims he can, as some animals do, anticipate earthquakes days before they occur. His house in Athens has no TV and no phone. Says drummer Berry: "The three of us are just as average as you can get, but Michael is obviously...
People are just as anxious about water as they are about food. That is understandable, since roughly 1,000 contaminants have been detected in public supplies and virtually every major water source is vulnerable to pollution. About half the U.S. population relies on surface water -- from rivers, lakes and reservoirs that may harbor industrial wastes and pesticides washed off fields by rain. The other half uses groundwater -- from underground wells and springs that may be tainted by chemicals slowly seeping in from toxic-waste dumps. In some areas where groundwater supplies are being gradually depleted, the chemical pollutants are becoming...
...sets standards for water safety, but has been slow to formulate limits. So far, maximum levels have been decided for some 30 contaminants, less than half the number ordered by Congress. Moreover, critics complain that there is no monitoring of water in the home...