lead-poisoning love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Poisoning by the introduction into the body of some preparation of lead, as sugar of lead, white lead, etc.

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Examples

  • The moves suggest the city is rethinking the balance between economic growth and safety after a series of lead-poisoning scandals around the country.

    Shanghai Closes Plants Using Lead James T. Areddy 2011

  • "Underpinning China's lead-poisoning epidemic is a tension between the government's goals for economic growth and its efforts to curb environmental degradation," says the June report, which is based on examination of the ill effects of manufacturing in selected provinces.

    Shanghai Closes Plants Using Lead James T. Areddy 2011

  • Researchers studied 25 of the 200 lead-poisoning deaths across the nation in the past twenty years, and found that 20 of them could be linked to moonshine.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • A lead-poisoning outbreak in Nigeria due to gold-mining practices has killed at least 163 people, mostly children.

    What's News: World-Wide 2010

  • Researchers studied 25 of the 200 lead-poisoning deaths across the nation in the past twenty years, and found that 20 of them could be linked to moonshine.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called the lead-poisoning outbreak unprecedented, with a large number of deaths over just a few months and dozens of young children found to have dangerously high levels of lead exposure.

    Officials Widen Nigeria Lead-Poisoning Tests 2010

  • "I've never seen anything like this before," said Antonio Neri, a medical epidemiologist with the CDC's healthy homes and lead-poisoning prevention branch who spent more than three weeks investigating the outbreak in Nigeria.

    Officials Widen Nigeria Lead-Poisoning Tests 2010

  • Under the leadership of council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), a group of building owners, scientists, advocates, policymakers and others worked to achieve consensus on the 2008 lead-poisoning prevention law.

    D.C. Council's due diligence on water safety 2010

  • Researchers studied 25 of the 200 lead-poisoning deaths across the nation in the past twenty years, and found that 20 of them could be linked to moonshine.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • Was the problem of lead-poisoning known to the Wedgwoods?

    Dan Agin: Wedgwood Teacups, Child Labor, and Lead Poisoning 2009

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