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assure The companies that manufacture these chemicals _____ us they are perfectly safe.
blame Cancer researchers sometimes say that the commonness of cancer in the Third World shows that the ‘chemical society’ is not totally to _____.
concentrate A traditional way of dealing with cancer has been to _____ on the psychology of the sufferer.
controversy There may be _____ about the causes of cancer. But one thing seems certain: there is no plague of cancer.
dubious The _____ psychological notion of a ‘cancer personality’ has become a variation of the blame-the-victim philosophy.
enforced Legislation to protect workers and communities from carcinogens either does not exist or is rarely _____.
environment In North America, 140,000 toxic waste dumps have so far been identified - many of them leak dangerous chemicals into the surrounding _____.
exposed Two million people around the world are _____ to chemical poisoning, and the vast majority of these are in the Third World.
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