Word: hazard
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...chairman and principal shareholder, India's richest man (he's worth an estimated $6.7 billion). Yet Premji's influence comes as much from his iconoclastic personality as from his sheer wealth. He is revered by businesspeople in India for insisting that Wipro will not pay bribes--a common hazard of doing business there...
From This Old House to Trading Spaces, the theme of most home shows has been that your home is a creative expression of your personality. On the new shows, your personality is, if anything, an obstacle. Sell This House (A&E, Sundays, 5:30 p.m. E.T.) has Roger Hazard, an expert "home restager"--this is an actual profession--reminding a couple, "We're not decorating this house for you to live in. We're decorating it for you to leave." Likewise, HGTV's Designed to Sell (Sundays, 8 p.m. E.T.), which joins the network's already popular House Hunters, helps...
According to Bloom, though, Hammitt didn’t need the support to get the top spot at the center, which is HSPH’s branch dedicated to developing analytical methods of assessing risk and hazard management...
...What If It Were All a Lie?” explains that microwaves do not violate any sort of state or local fire code, nor—according to the Cambridge Fire Department’s Fire Prevention Bureau—do they even constitute a particularly notable fire hazard (there are many microwaves available that are cheaper than the HSA microfridge and run on a lower wattage, low wattage being the alleged reason for the microfridge’s safe and legal status). Rather, it is the state sanitary code, which has nothing to do with fire safety, that...
...concern for cost and profit has led to fierce resistance to the regulations. But, it’s none other than coal-burning power plants that serve as the largest providers of unregulated airborne mercury pollution. Pumping out about 48 tons per year, these plants obviously pose a huge hazard to our health yet are receiving unduly lenient treatment...