Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mich., plant and complaints from consumers, Dow met with other chemical companies to discuss "problems of health" associated with dioxin. Dow says that the get-together was an attempt to police the industry from within and coordinate methods to keep the level of dioxin in Agent Orange below the danger point. In 1970 Dow recommended to then Defense Secretary Melvin Laird that the Government set a safer maximum level of dioxin content in Agent Orange...
...away from prevailing industry styles. Instead of just turning out near clones of General Motors or Chrysler cars, Ford is developing models with radically rounded contours, much like its own successful European cars. Says Chief Designer John Telnack: "We didn't want to stay with the herd." The danger, though, is that Ford's aerodynamic models may be too far out in front of consumer tastes...
Calculated outrage like this burns out fast, and Bowie was in danger of doing just that. Pale under all his stage makeup and already well into the high life, he was held together only by the weight of his old dreams. Born in Brixton, one of London's toughest neighborhoods, Bowie originally dreamed of being a painter. He describes his father Hayward Jones as "a gambler and drinker and layabout for most of his life. I have one brother and one sister that I know about." His mother Margaret Mary Burns was a movie usher when she met Hayward...
Until last week, when reporters assigned to Central America have talked of trouble and danger, they have nearly always meant El Salvador. Said Peter Eisner, the Central America news editor for Associated Press: "The focus of fighting has been there." In San Salvador, reporters sometimes face searches of their apartments, sloppy telephone taps and occasional death threats made in anonymous calls or leaflets. On the Honduras-Nicaragua border, which some leading correspondents last week labeled the new most hazardous spot in an increasingly strife-torn region, there is an emerging hint of precaution. Said Tamayo regretfully: "In El Salvador, journalists...
...happens, Kate had sniffed danger and summoned from San Francisco a lawyer she kept on retainer for occasions like this. By the time Attorney Dade Cooley, an urbane 60-year-old, and his astute wife Ellen reach the Toulouse-Carcassonne canal, Kate has just surfaced, as dead as Ophelia, in a lock. In a classic, Christie-precise scenario, Cooley discovers that the murders almost certainly involve Kate's obsessive desire to own a priceless 35-carat ruby, a relic of the Crusades, which was stolen and has been missing for several years...