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  • The federal judge overseeing the litigation, Alvin K. Hellerstein, has acknowledged how difficult it would be to prove the dust's toxic legacy and has pushed both sides to agree to a settlement that could provide more than $700 million in compensation based on the severity of the injury and the likelihood that it is plausibly connected to 9/11.

    Anthony DePalma: When "I Don't Know" Is the Only Answer Anthony DePalma 2010

  • It's not just Congress where the dust's toxicity has been questioned without reaching any firm conclusions.

    Anthony DePalma: Justice by Whatever Name Anthony DePalma 2010

  • The federal judge overseeing the litigation, Alvin K. Hellerstein, has acknowledged how difficult it would be to prove the dust's toxic legacy and has pushed both sides to agree to a settlement that could provide more than $700 million in compensation based on the severity of the injury and the likelihood that it is plausibly connected to 9/11.

    Anthony DePalma: When "I Don't Know" Is the Only Answer Anthony DePalma 2010

  • It's not just Congress where the dust's toxicity has been questioned without reaching any firm conclusions.

    Anthony DePalma: Justice by Whatever Name Anthony DePalma 2010

  • Smoke is dust's inevitable twin in a West beset by climate chaos, and the lousy air quality we suffer when fires are raging is part of the new normal.

    Chip Ward: Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West 2009

  • Oh, and I forgot to request a specific mention of the chocolate dust's effect on the overall moistness.

    Snickerdoodles! C N Heidelberg 2008

  • And oh may the gods believe in my telling, in the dream I recount, and may the long dead listen in the wind-drowned lands in the dust's generation as I tell you the seventh of seven visions, the song of the dragon's wing.

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • And oh may the gods believe in my telling, in the dream I recount, and may the long dead listen in the wind-drowned lands in the dust's generation as I tell you the seventh of seven visions, the song of the dragon's wing.

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • Through it, she saw Antryg's face taut with concentration, fighting the spell of the dust's suffocation.

    The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

  • There's nothing to keep me here now the dust's aboard.

    Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

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