Word: endangerment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, called for an end to "strikes that endanger the very survival of society." Said he: "We cannot live in a situation where a few workers who are denied their equity can paralyze an entire community." Speaking to some 1,000...
Tough Decisions: Triage (pronounced tree-ahj) is French for "sorting," and because of the word's emotional overtones, most military medics prefer not to talk about it. But it is a process of sorting that works for the greatest good of the greatest number. The triage officer looks over...
No Chances. Despite the inconvenience and expense-and the ever-present danger that Voyager's reliability might be impaired-NASA has no doubts about the ultimate value of its spacecraft-sterilization program. Says Associate Administrator Homer E. Newell: "Successful biological exploration of the planets is a goal that supersedes...
Britain, unhappy over a war between the Commonwealth's two most populous members, followed Washington's example and stopped its $50 million a year in military aid to India (it sends no arms to Pakistan); but it could do no more.* Moscow was equally helpless. Unwilling to endanger...
Slama and Williams believe that different insects have different kinds of juvenile hormones. By isolating these hormones, scientists may find ways to eliminate insects selectively, without using sprays that endanger the lives of higher animals and useful insects. Ground-up newspapers may be a ready source of a hormonelike chemical...