"veteran" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The group asserts that the V.A. has improperly denied benefits to thousands of veterans exposed to life-endangering radiation at postwar atomic tests and in the occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the first atomic bombs were dropped in 1945.
- The legislation also includes some new benefits for veterans exposed to nuclear radiation in World War II or in tests in the 1950's and 1960's.
- Precise information on the number of tests, experiments, and participants is not available and the exact number of veterans exposed will probably never be known.
- The study also linked exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange to the occurrence of benign fatty tumors and a 40 percent increase in the risk for miscarriage among wives of veterans exposed to the herbicide.
- In 1979 Congress passed a law ordering the Veterans Administration, the precursor of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to make the first comprehensive assessment of the health of veterans exposed to Agent Orange.
- This research found that the likelihood of a mental health diagnosis, including but not limited to PTSD, more than doubled for veterans exposed to MST.
- In 1987, the C.D.C. canceled the study of veterans exposed to Agent Orange after five years of research and $43 million in expenditures.
- A report from the Institute of Medicine has found that veterans exposed to Agent Orange three decades ago were at greater risk for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a fast-moving and deadly cancer.
- Doyle won nine gold Clios for a print public service campaign for the National Association of Atomic Veterans of Salem, Mass., a nonprofit organization seeking Government help for veterans exposed to atomic tests.
- Eventually, it helped persuade the Government to pay damages to veterans exposed to Agent Orange.
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