Word: hazard
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...Australian Fisheries Management Authority; Cummins is recommending that the boat, Merauke-based Buna Perawan, be apprehended and towed back to Thursday Island. But first Cummins wants the eight fishermen to retrieve their buoys and lines; Coastwatch has located the gear 9 nautical mi. away. "The lines are an environmental hazard," says Geoff Weir, a member of the boarding party. Typically, sharks caught on these lines are stripped of their fins and thrown back into the water alive. "Not only is the harvesting method wasteful," says Weir, a marine biologist by training, "but taking out the predator...
Charles J. Krause Jr., UHS sanitary inspector, said that while he had received a copy of O’Leary’s letter, he did not agree that the temporary employees constituted a health hazard...
...THINK BEING DEPRESSED IS AN OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD FOR A COMEDIAN? That's the way it is; what can I tell you? The better the comedian, the more depressed he is. When I was 15, I tried to escape being unhappy by writing jokes. So, yeah, it's possible that comedy is an escape from depression...
However, this year Art Squatters will not be able to use the same space to store paints due to fire hazard concerns. “The landlord [of Tommy’s Value], Janet, decided that we shouldn’t keep any more paints where we had stored them last year due to fire hazards,” Gogel says
...opened up a store selling oranges and other citrus fruit. Legend has it that she needed a dress with a colorful pattern that would obscure the juice that got on her clothing (an occupational hazard if I’ve ever heard of one). Rising to the challenge, Pulitzer sewed herself a handful of dresses in bright colors that were new, cute and popular, and requests for them quickly began pouring in from all over Palm Beach. Once Jackie Kennedy, a friend and classmate of Lilly’s at Chapin girls’ school in New York, wore...