Word: toxication
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Overcoming denial is the first step in confronting addiction. We got into this state of toxic dependency on militarism through conscious choices, made all too often by opportunistic politicians and profit-hungry arms dealers. Getting out requires another set of choices; call it "planning" if you will. We can continue with the ghoulish fixation that condemns our nation to production-for-death. Or we can, through an open and democratic decision- making process, find some more life-affirming way to keep 3 million Americans employed...
...will now consider granting conditional approval to experimental treatments for terminal diseases for which there are few or no medical alternatives. This is a radical shift for the nation's pharmaceutical watchdog. Drugs conditionally approved will be closely monitored and withdrawn if they prove to be too toxic or ineffective. "We may be wrong," says FDA Commissioner David Kessler, "but with life- threatening illnesses, those risks are acceptable...
...everybody in Hudspeth County concurs. Ever since an Oklahoma consortium, MERCO, announced plans to turn the old 128,000-acre ranch into a repository for millions of tons of New York City sewage, local ranchers and townsfolk have worried about toxic pollution spilling into their air, their soil and the waters of the nearby Rio Grande. But overall there was a strong show of support for the project, because MERCO offered 35 jobs and a $10,000 weekly payroll...
...growing numbers, financially desperate communities are making what seem like pacts with the devilish, opening their arms to garbage, toxic waste and nuclear refuse from distant states. Such trade-offs of trash for jobs seem certain to increase in number, given the growing crackdown by states on local landfills, impending EPA standards for construction of dumps and the recent Supreme Court decision prohibiting trash tariffs to discourage out-of-state dumping...
...Preparation Age -- Mad and Hell will even make a mud-pact with Satan. And you can bet the devil is a woman (Isabella Rossellini). Only the sodden man in their lives (Bruce Willis), a plastic surgeon turned makeup artist for the newly dead, has any understanding of the toxic wastes that lace the Fountain of Youth...