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Example sentences for: asbestos

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W31 (Whitman says there is no reason for concern given EPA tests for asbestos).
Berlaymont has been closed for nine years after an asbestos scare and a botched cleanup: European taxpayers have paid $50 million so far merely to keep the building closed, with air pumps running around the clock to prevent any fibers from wafting out.
It does not, and should, discuss other recent product-liability cases of national importance, such as asbestos, tobacco, and hand guns.
A mountain of scientific studies has shown that asbestos in walls is almost never dangerous: The only dangerous thing is trying to rip it out because that causes fibers to become airborne--exactly what has happened at Berlaymont.
A6 (EPA says levels of airborne asbestos below threshold of concern); Hugo Kugiya,"Terrorist Attacks; Asbestos Targeted in Cleanup Effort; EPA's Whitman:'No reason for concern,'" Newsday, Sept. 16, 2001, p.