Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...permit arose in the Madhya Pradesh state assembly in December 1982, then Labor Minister Tarasingh Viyogi took pains to remind his listeners that the plant had cost $25 million to build. "The factory is not a small stone that can be shifted elsewhere," he argued. "There is no danger to Bhopal, nor will there...
...prospect of continuing medical damage, last week's tragedy may have a long-term salutary effect: it awakened a resolve across India that the episode not be repeated. "It is clear that safety standards in this country are unsatisfactory, and that every city with large industry has become a danger zone," editorialized the Indian Express, one of India's most prestigious English-language dailies. It was equally clear that the country, which in its 37 years of independence has weathered floods and famines, riots and rebellions, would nonetheless be haunted and chastened by last week's disaster for decades...
...about getting there 30 hours after the leak. At the airport there was an air of uncertainty and even fear. Only three taxis were available, and miraculously two photographers and I got one of them. When we told the driver where we wanted to go he uttered one word, "Danger," to justify doubling the fare we had agreed upon. We accepted instantly...
...scientific advance has a problem on its flip side, and by concentrating on the extreme alternatives the public confuses its dilemma. Scientific change and social change often run as two trains on independent tracks at different speeds. We tend to leap from one to the other thinking that the danger lies in one of the alternatives--but the issue is in fact in the leaping...
...think there is clear and present danger at this facility." Patrick Pollino, an ADL official, reiterated yesterday. ADL safely uses small quantities of toxic substances at a state-of-the-art laboratory, kept in containers and transported by aimed, guards, according to Pollino...