In just about every major contaminated food scare, Minnesotans become sick by the dozens while few people in Kentucky and other states are counted among the ill.
Last August, the U.S. Geological Survey announced that a 1998-2005 study of fish in 291 U.S. freshwater streams found every sample contaminated with mercury.
Every institution is contaminated: the judicial system, the civil service, the banks, the state-owned industries and particularly the intelligence services (see article).
You're right that the story is full of minor, more identifiable irritations, which of course are aggravated by the great big irritation that has no clear contours, that is more diffuse, that has contaminated every aspect of their existence.
This serpent-like prophecy--whether self-fulfilling or otherworldly remains a mystery to me--has contaminated every part of the Agwu family's lives, from their relationships to their mental health to their Christian faith.
Gertrude and Ophelia are played by the same actress, Judith Rosmair – an idea of frantic coherence that confirms Hamlet's confused, incestuous idea of every woman as similarly contaminated.
Here where I live in the Bay Area, where we're a bunch of iphone-toting-treehuggers, every single creek is contaminated with high levels of pesticides including diazinon, a chemical that was banned almost ten years ago because of its toxicity to mammals.
Poisonous mercury raining down from coal-fired power plants has contaminated fish in every US state.
Additionally, Chemetco discharged contaminated storm water every time it rained on the plant.
Special footwear should be worn in the operating department and cleaned if contaminated or after every use.
By the time the family left the home 2 hr after the spill, the children had spread Hg from their contaminated clothing to every room of the house.
