Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Market marked the completion of the third and final stage of a $30 million, 6.5-acre renovation project. With some 30,000 people visiting the area daily, the market is almost outdrawing Florida's Disney World. Says Terry Rankin, head of the Boston Society of Architects: "The danger was in the downtown area that there wasn't enough life and vitality among the high-rise buildings. The marketplace has solved that problem...
...conference sponsored by the Radar Victims Network in San Francisco last week, he and his fellow "victims," including Organization President Joseph Towne, met with doctors and lawyers to plot strategy for a national campaign. They want the Government to take action against what they consider the growing danger from microwave radiation. The U.S., said Los Angeles Radiation Specialist Dr. John McLaughlin, is one "giant microwave oven...
...many American researchers remain unconvinced that there is any real danger. Only recently a study by the National Academy of Sciences found that naval radar operators died no younger than their peers in other jobs. The Environmental Protection Agency points out that 98% of the U.S. population is exposed to less than one microwatt of microwave radiation at any one time. Says State Department Biologist Herbert Pollack: "The 'zapping of America' is just a sensationalist charge." Perhaps so, but in an era of microwaves, their use obviously requires continued research and education...
...city fire department that it will improve the fireproofing of buildings-without saying what it will do to put out the four-alarm blaze that is raging right now. And if the dollar's fall is not stopped, the U.S. and world economies will be in mounting danger. The cheapening of the greenback may add ¼% to 1½% to this year's U.S. inflation rate. It both raises the costs of imports, which are now about equal to 10% of the gross national product, and moves American manufacturers to increase prices on goods that compete against imports...
...discount rate (at which member banks borrow from the Fed) from 7¼% to 7¾%. The U.S. could also try to borrow back some of the tens of billions of dollars now held by nervous foreign investors by offering them Treasury bonds paying compellingly high interest. The danger: interest rates high enough to induce investors to give back dollars might also be high enough to tip the U.S. into recession...