Word: hazard
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...Tell me about your company. We call what we do "biotrauma remediation." We're providing the remedy for not only the biological hazard but also the trauma that stems from that hazard. Our service is twofold: we do the cleanups, but we also care about the people and try to provide the most sensitive service that we possibly could...
According to George J.J. Hayward ’11, a Currier House resident and member of the Undergraduate Council, several security issues have recently been raised by Quad residents, including inconsistent cellphone reception that poses a potential safety hazard for students...
What may we not be aware of in terms of the hazards posed by volcanoes - both for people living in their shadows or for someone like me who lives thousands of miles away from one? If you live close to a volcano, you have to be worried about flowing lava, flowing mud. Mudflows can go quite a distance - 100 km - down river valleys. If you live farther away, you're not going to be directly affected by those hazards, but you could very well be affected by the ashfall, which can travel a distance of hundreds of miles...
...these past disasters and tried to learn from them. I sometimes think we're victims of our own success. We have been able to mitigate the adverse affects of volcanoes through science. There have been no crashes of aircraft because we've gotten pretty good at diverting them. The hazard is what it's always been. Our ability to deal with it has improved...
USAGE: "Administration officials say it is impossible to help large groups of borrowers without introducing some degree of what has come to be known as moral hazard." --Wall Street Journal...