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  • noun Attributive form of toxic waste

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Examples

  • Although this new deal with Treasury and the Fed could not be completed by the time the merger was to close on January 1, Lewis told his board he had received an oral commitment that the capital infusion and toxic-waste removal would be in place by January 20, the day Bank of America was to release its 2008 earnings report.

    The Final Days of Merrill Lynch 2009

  • The Palisades Center has inspired local humorists with its gargantuan nature and placement atop what had been a toxic-waste dump.

    A Whopping Shopping Saga Steve Dollar 2011

  • I never took it personally, because I realized he didn 't trust anybody, except a very small group of advisers around him, said Robert Hernan, a former assistant attorney general in the environmental protection bureau who was a trial lawyer for the state in the Love Canal toxic-waste case in the late 1980s.

    Cuomo Jacob Gershman 2010

  • Although this new deal with Treasury and the Fed could not be completed by the time the merger was to close on January 1, Lewis told his board he had received an oral commitment that the capital infusion and toxic-waste removal would be in place by January 20, the day Bank of America was to release its 2008 earnings report.

    The Final Days of Merrill Lynch 2009

  • Jens Lindhe TOXIC AVENGER | The boardwalk at the Maritime Youth House, cleverly built over a former toxic-waste site His easygoing and attentive sociability seems to have been one of the keys to his public success in Scandinavia and should ease his acceptance here.

    Building a Better Future Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • Zijin Mining Group rose by the 10% daily limit in a technical rebound after falling about 14% in the previous five sessions, following the company's apology for a toxic-waste leak at one of its copper mines in Fujian province.

    Chinese Stocks Hit Three-Week High 2010

  • A maker and distributor of deadly PCB's added to global water supplies and one of the biggest toxic-waste polluters the world has ever seen -- under the worst circumstances,

    Consumers Beware: Monsanto Is A Global Multinational Biotech-Killer 2010

  • Could I, would I, drop everything and search for Durden's "dilapidated house in a toxic-waste part of town"?

    Kim Morgan: The Club in Your Face: The Social Network 2010

  • A maker and distributor of deadly PCB's added to global water supplies and one of the biggest toxic-waste polluters the world has ever seen -- under the worst circumstances,

    Consumers Beware: Monsanto Is A Global Multinational Biotech-Killer 2010

  • A maker and distributor of deadly PCB's added to global water supplies and one of the biggest toxic-waste polluters the world has ever seen -- under the worst circumstances,

    Printing: Consumers Beware: Monsanto Is A Global Multinational Biotech-Killer 2010

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