Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admitted that it may have overestimated the seriousness of the large hydrogen bubble that formed in the reactor vessel. Despite that small explosion, investigators now believe there was never any danger of a bigger blast, which could have ruptured the reactor vessel and containment building, spreading deadly radiation. The false alarm was caused by incorrect speculation about free oxygen in the vessel...
...cuts through the smugness and self-absorption that have characterized it for too long. The Roches share a kind of skeptical innocence that is delicate but far from fragile. Maggie and Terre Roche flirted with fame once before and have logged a fair portion of time in the psychic danger zone. "We went so far out there/ Everybody got scared," Terre Roche wrote in one song...
Feeding the fears is a flock of boomy indicators. In March unemployment remained relatively low, industrial production rose strongly and housing starts increased. Businessmen also have been building up then" stockpiles, raising the danger that in event of an economic slowdown later this year, they might be caught with big backlogs and forced to cut back severely, causing a deep economic drop...
...should be enacted to prevent the disclosure of certain classified information, especially the publication of agents' names that puts their lives as well as their missions in danger. It is surely anomalous that people can receive a prison sentence for releasing data on bank loans, relief rolls or crop statistics, while others can reveal intelligence matters with impunity. At Washington's Dupont Circle, seven miles from CIA headquarters, a group is in business to publish the names of CIA agents abroad. Under the present espionage law, somebody who divulges secrets can be convicted only if it is proved...
...will not quarantine any students known to have German measles, Wacker said. "The only real danger is for pregnant women in the first trimester of pregnancy," he said...