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Basically, in Hell's Kitchen, New York, after being blinded by a toxic waste chemical, which increases his other senses dramatically, young Matt Murdock (Scott Terra) loses his father Jack (David Keith) to an unknown man dropping a rose.
Let me say straight away that this movie is toxic waste for the mind.
Some of these counterfeit products contain toxic ingredients.
But instead of managing those challenges, as Europe did in the nineteenth century, much of the world is succumbing to political polarization, rising nationalism, and a toxic blame game.
At this writing, Yam is widely criticized in Hong Kong for failing to protect small investors against the dishonest sales tactics of a number of banks in their selling of toxic Lehman Brothers derivatives disguised as bonds.
Earlier this year, the PBOC attempted to clean up its toxic assets and promote bank deleveraging.
There is also a boom in pollution and toxic waste, and booming interest in religion – from Buddhism to Pentecostal Christianity – and in Confucian philosophy.
Similarly, environmental laws make firms liable for their toxic wastes, and many countries, including the US, have enshrined the principle that "polluters pay," that is, companies must pay for the damage they cause.
In Europe, a toxic combination of public, bank, and external debt in the periphery threatens to unhinge the eurozone.
Hitler spoke of Jews as a toxic “racial germ.”
A tradition of conservative banking regulation and a tough-minded Governor of the Reserve Bank (India’s central bank) ensured that Indian banks did not acquire the toxic debts flowing from sub-prime loans, credit-default swaps, and over-inflated housing prices that assailed Western banks.
While the plastics used, say, to package our foods are usually nontoxic, most plastics are laden with chemicals, from softeners (which can act as endocrine disruptors) to flame retardants (which can be carcinogenic or toxic in higher concentrations).
These genetically engineered strains can thrive even in degraded soil, so that people no longer have to turn to the more toxic varieties.
In Vietnam, the same deluges caused toxic slurry pits from coal mines to overflow and run through villages, and into the World Heritage-listed Ha Long Bay; the death toll was 17.
It can still be toxic.
India’s Social-Media Lynch MobsNEW DELHI – Social-media platforms are often criticized for their susceptibility to toxic dialogue and vicious attacks.
With that, Swaraj learned what the rest of us have long known: her party has poisoned social media in India with such toxic posts that venturing there is like stepping into the site of a nuclear accident: unless you actively protect yourself, you will be destroyed.
Mervyn King, a former academic who is currently Governor of the Bank of England, and his colleagues have a vivid name for the toxic cocktail that results: “doom loop.”
The Royal Bank of Scotland, founded in 1727, when laissez-faire philosopher Adam Smith was only four years old, has just become a socialist state-owned-enterprise thanks to the bank’s incompetent leaders, who acquired over-priced banks filled with toxic assets.
In today’s circumstances, the financial system would have been better off if some version of US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s original plan to purchase toxic assets and take them off banks’ balance sheets had been realized.
For example, ten years of studies of the possible health effects of a class of carbon-based nanomaterials known as fullerenes report that the soccer-ball-shaped fullerene molecules known as “buckyballs,” are powerful antioxidants, comparable in strength to vitamin E. Other studies report that some types of buckyballs can be toxic to tumor cells.
Two recent studies concluded that buckyballs could impair brain functions in fish and were highly toxic to human-tissue cultures.
A subsequent study of fullerene toxicity found no significant toxicity for buckyballs, but did observe a toxic response in cell cultures to a second group of fullerenes, called “single-wall nanotubes.”
The most dangerous nanomaterials would be those that are both mobile and toxic.
Italy’s political situation shows how toxic Europe’s approach to populism has become.
Others feel suffocated by the prevailing toxic discourse that casts European Muslims as foreign, alien, and suspect.
If this structure had been in place in the US in 2008, when house prices collapsed, banks that held large portfolios of underperforming toxic assets would have started to drag down the value of the index fund.
First, it does not require government regulators to decide how much individual assets are worth, because private markets value toxic assets.
Today, having engaged in toxic debates and played politics with the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people to win votes, they share the blame again.
Rising income inequality is hardly limited to emerging markets, but their combination of open corruption and pervasive inequities creates a toxic brew that is undermining support for reforms that would strengthen and consolidate their economic gains.
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