Word: hazarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once again shaking hands proved to be a politician's biggest occupational hazard. In the reception line at the Democratic Party's new headquarters in Chicago's LaSalle Hotel, Mayor Richard J. Daley found himself touching skin with Joel Weisman, political reporter...
...locked doors also present a real fire hazard that hasn't been examined. In the interior courtyards of Winthrop House, for example, a key is necessary to get into any entry, even those leading to the street. With the gates to Mem Drive chain locked, a fire in the middle of the night could leave many disoriented people trapped and roasting in the courtyards...
...kept the ship at least 4,000,000 miles from those larger (at least seven miles in diameter) and rarer asteroids that can be seen by telescope on earth. Said NASA's newly confident Dr. William Kinard: "We're firmly convinced that the asteroid belt presents little hazard for future spacecraft going to explore the outer planets...
From November until late January, pilots landing at the International Airport near the northern Nigerian city of Kano must worry about a special hazard. Hot winds off the Sahara, known as harmattan, pick up so much dust and sand that the sky becomes hazy and visibility is drastically reduced. Last week a Royal Jordanian Airlines Boeing 707 coming in for a landing at Kano had to make a second attempt because of the blinding harmattan. As the plane landed on the second try, the 707 suddenly burst into flames, and 176 of its 202 passengers were killed. The death toll...
...whole 'nother smoke," claims the commercial for one of the "little cigars." The U.S. Public Health Service and the Federal Trade Commission disagree with that claim, at least as it bears on the health hazards of the small, tobacco-wrapped smokes that usually come in packs of 20. Because they can be easily inhaled in the same manner as cigarettes and have roughly the same amounts of nicotine and tars, they can be just as dangerous, the Government agencies contend. Therefore the FTC recommended last week that little cigars be treated like cigarettes under the law. If Congress agrees...