Inside a semicircular building nestled in the woods, soldiers wearing masks and full-body chemical suits are put into airtight chambers tainted with enough poisonous nerve gas to kill scores of them.
They placed the cloak in a tank of water tainted with enough white paint to make light diffuse through it more slowly than through the polymer.
On another occasion, when a group of students asked to be shown the university's investment portfolio to see whether it was "tainted," he said, jokingly, that Brandeis's endowment, compared with those of other major American universities, "taint enough".
Patrick Noonan, the C.E.O. of the Nature Conservancy in the seventies, once responded to a reporter's suggestion that corporate money had a taint by replying, "It may be tainted, but 'tain't enough!" The idea that nature should be viewed as a market had intellectual antecedents, too, going back almost as far as the competing idea of nature as priceless.
In the complaint, Mr. Hewlett charged that "H.P.'s clandestine use of corporate assets" -- promising to give or withhold future banking business -- to get Deutsche Bank to switch "tainted more than enough votes" to tip the closely contested vote in favor of the deal.
They did not offer evidence that enough ballots were tainted to change the narrow outcome of the race — a fact that Republicans seized on as evidence that Harris remains the rightful winner in the last undecided congressional race in the nation.
"His biggest error," Gigot wrote, "was in not working soon enough to replace Republicans tainted by scandal".
The problem with the technology is that early versions often were not comprehensive enough, missing key files tainted by viruses; another glitch: some cheaper products cannot recognize the difference between a virus and a software bug.
The appeals judges called on the lower court to determine "as to each defendant, what evidence — if any — the government presented against him that was tainted as to him," and whether that was enough to justify throwing out the charges.
