Word: hazarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Albany, where he is now employed. At first, the state kept quiet about the case. But eventually a reporter heard about it, and state officials decided to head off scare stories by giving the facts. "From a public health point of view," they insisted, "there is absolutely no hazard...
...soapmakers-P & G, Colgate and Lever-vigorously deny that there is a health hazard and produce a barrage of statistical evidence. P & G pretested the effects of enzymes on the skin by applying patches smeared with detergent solution to more than 20 random groups of from 60 to 100 volunteers. The patches were applied three times a week for three weeks, and there was not a single case of skin irritation. Executives also say that they have all but eliminated enzyme dust in packaged goods. Just to keep the record clean, however, the soapmakers say that they intend...
...South Africa, for example, a campaign was waged against hippopotamuses. Deemed useless beasts that merely cluttered up rivers, they were shot on sight. Result: the debilitating disease called schistosomiasis has become as great a public-health hazard in certain areas as malaria was 50 years ago. As usual, the missing links in the chain of events were discovered the hard way. It turns out that hippos keep river silt...
...skiers have finished high in each of a series of highly competitive events which began Dec. 19. although it has been without the services of top slalom man Jay O'Rear and jumper Rollie Hazard...
...Rear broke a few of his vertebrae in sledding accident, but the injury is not as serious as it sounds. Hopefully, he'll be skiing for us again in about three weeks," McCollom said. "Hazard quit because he-had other things to do," he added...