Word: hazard
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s the American attitude towards their immense amount of litter—that is, an extremely apathetic one. We slavishly overindulge to our heart’s content without concern for the waste we produce as consequence. This gratuitous attitude is what has imposed a health hazard on our country’s indigenous fauna; and, it must be changed...
...Officers were sent to Morgan Hall to investigate a report of a powdery substance found in the mail. Environmental Health & Safety and the Boston Fire Department responded. After investigation, they deemed no safety hazard was present...
...state. Passengers sitting near Chan on the two flights were also contacted and quarantined in Hong Kong and the U.S. "Lab accidents do happen," says Dr. Richard Brown, a member of the SARS outbreak team at the WHO's office in Manila. "To some extent it's an occupational hazard." Researchers still don't know what turns some SARS patients into superspreaders, but Asia is lucky that Chan's infection appears to be an isolated case...
...important thing to know about Liz is that her room is a fire hazard. Or at least it was last year (I haven’t been to the Quad in a while). She’s got old issues of FM in one corner and an imposing stack of other glossies—W and Elle mixed with the The Economist and The New Republic and the like—an appropriate combination of perfume samples and politics. That’s the way Liz likes to mix it up. And you can count on her to deliver substance...
...that much. I mean, it shaped my economic world view. I was like the only 14 year old using the term moral hazard and things like that. On UC, I’ve been very conscious about making sound fiscal decisions where we price the services that we give at what they’re actually costing us. I like to say that the students pay for it either way, it’s just a question of whether they pay for it through their term bill or they pay for it through the fee for the service...