The Obama Administration has moved to soften the law, but high-stakes assessment remains the corrosive norm.
And of course, anti-gay bullying remains a corrosive and sometimes fatal cancer on society, while many communities have saved no place at the table for the gay, the transgender, or the intersex.
A recent New Jersey case demonstrated the mob's endurance, as acting state attorney general John J. Hoffman said his investigation into the Lucchese crime family "revealed that traditional organized crime remains a corrosive presence in the US and continues to reap huge profits through criminal enterprises".
And his company's official reaction to today's parliamentary report demonstrates that he remains blind to the broadly corrosive effect of the hacking and bribing and perjury that has dominated headlines for many months.
Corrosive quality of the permeate remains the critical factor because of its high chloride concentration.
Despite centuries of corrosive fumes and grime, the carving remains sharp and vivid; it was a revelation to see it stripped of accumulated filth.
But legalisation remains decades away.Meanwhile, Latin American democracies suffer the lethal, corrosive power of the drug gangs.
Racism remains both a prevalent cultural attitude in some places, and a corrosive force stunting the potential of children and communities.
M*A*S*H (1970), set in a military hospital during the Korean war, remains Altman's biggest commercial success, and immediately crystallised his style and attitude, with its corrosive stance towards US institutions, its farcical humour, distinct elements of misogyny and, at times, over-readiness to tilt at easy targets.
At worst, these corrosive reactions result in core pin or sprue dissolution, and at the least, some soldered cast metal remains behind when the casting is ejected.
It remains the main obstacle in the practical applications of ZnS in photoelectric devices, so that the less photo-corrosive TiO2 is routinely used [ 122, 123].
