Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the people who objected to the vendingmachines were concerned that they would be viewedpurely as a convenience rather than an educationalreminder about the danger of AIDS. house committeechairmen said...
There is always a danger of quackery in such unorthodox approaches, as orthodox doctors repeatedly warn. But some New Age healers have perfectly standard medical training. Bernie Siegel, for example, is a surgeon who teaches at Yale and has written a new best seller, Love, Medicine & Miracles. After years of treating cancer patients, he believes "all disease is ultimately related to a lack of love, or to love that is only conditional, for the exhaustion of the immune system thus created leads to physical vulnerability." Dolores Krieger, an R.N. and a Ph.D., teaches the art of therapeutic touch to nurses...
...expected to abandon our notions of civilized decorum and run amok like some base creature of the wild. Abandoning basic norms of human behavior is no problem for most, but even if this initial obstacle can be overcome, the road to a successful, "call waiting" experience remains fraught with danger...
...might argue with her overwrought prose and with many of her food preferences (mayonnaise on gefilte fish, garlic in Manhattan clam chowder, bottled spaghetti sauce). Kafka suggests the microwave for ridiculous purposes, such as preparing white sauce and melting butter. A more serious caveat: manufacturers, concerned about the danger of burns, disagree with Kafka's recommendation to deep fry in a microwave...
While developers have been eager to build upscale offices renting for as much as $50 per sq. ft., the city suffers from a brutal shortage of moderate and low-cost housing. "The big weakness -- and real danger -- to the city is the failure to provide housing," says George Sternlieb, founder of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University. Families are forced by costs to move out of New York. Ultimately, says Sternlieb, "they take their jobs with them. Eventually the boss says, 'Why pay premium wages to people to commute? I can put together a better work force...