Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within three months, however, the promise turned to peril. Several consumer organizations, including Ralph Nader's Health Research Group, went to court seeking a ban on the drug as an "imminent danger." Last week, spurred by reports that 72 Oraflex takers had died and hundreds had been injured in Britain and the U.S., Lilly said that it was recalling all supplies of the drug. Earlier that day Britain's Health Ministry suspended the supply and promotion of the drug for 90 days "on grounds of safety." Meanwhile U.S. officials were considering whether to prosecute the giant international drug...
...head of the FDA'S office of new-drug evaluation, Dr. Robert Temple, said that when Lilly later submitted reports that mentioned jaundice as a possible side effect, the FDA was so swamped with paperwork that it overlooked the information, and physicians were not warned of that danger...
Continental Illinois' problem loans have multiplied as the economy has slumped. By offering the details to public scrutiny, the bank at least made it plain that it is not in any danger of collapse, or indeed of a serious cash squeeze. Losses on bad loans are expected to increase, but healthy loans will still enable the bank to turn a year-end profit that many analysts have been predicting will reach at least $125 million. That is far more in earnings than many of Continental's customers can count...
...curious choice for a function that is raising money to keep animals alive). Also on hand in more tasteful, authentic trappings were a puma, a reindeer, a lioness, a jaguar, a raccoon, a macaw and a Gabor ex-husband-at least one in the group is in little danger of becoming an endangered species...
...command, control, communications, computing/information and intelligence. Kahn is not too specific about command and control. His discussion of CI other components describes an information network that he believes should enable government and business to make faster and better decisions. What of the Big Brother potential? He admits the danger, but with the impatience for outside skeptics that characterizes his book, he concludes that the benefits of "massive data banks" would outweigh the risks...