Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Last week, hundreds of mothers and fathers--this time with hundreds of children--crowded onto the playground of the Tobin School. Nobody was frowning; they were too busy eating hot dogs, singing or getting to know each other...
...that the agency too often acts on the basis of insufficient information. The industry, for example, insists that the EPA has not carefully evaluated the hazards of various chemicals and that its regulations are needlessly complex and burdensome. Up to a point, the EPA's Costle agrees. "I know that things aren't perfect with us," he says. "But just imagine how they would be without...
...ground-water pollution confirmed so far have been in the Northeast states, where the problem is largely the result of surface dumping of industrial wastes, and in California from agricultural chemicals. But awareness of the vulnerability of ground water is still so new that EPA officials do not really know how far the fouling of the aquifers has spread. Says Costle: "We cannot even begin to say how much of our drinking water, actual or potential, may have been contaminated. We are going to be doing a lot of detective work...
...calls "agism"-discrimination against the elderly. At the birthday party in his Capitol office, the oldest member of the House of Representatives gazed around the room at the young staff members who had organized the affair. Said he: "I plan to be around for your 80th birthdays too, you know...
...most touching example: a Canadian cavalry officer named Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, who was exhorted to lead a squadron of Lord Strathcona's Horse straight at entrenched machine gunners on a ridge. Flowerdew, Toland writes, "a mild-looking young man, smiled gently as they started forward. 'I know, sir. I know it is a splendid moment. I will try not to fail you.' " As the doomed cavalrymen rode past, an appalled cockney rifleman yelled, "Strathcona's Orse! You'll be bloody bully beef if yer don't get art the way!" Flowerdew and half...