Word: hazardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like liberal Democrats, they argue that the U.S. needs more and more money spent on schools, roads and houses than the President is willing to spend. They dislike his insistence that inflation is the nation's principal hazard-not because they like inflation but because they want to talk about other things, e.g., reclamation, broader civil rights legislation, urban renewal and power development...
...Command's Vandenberg Air Force Base. The West Coast missile complex is designed to take up where Cape Canaveral leaves off; i.e., primarily to shoot operational missiles and train crews to handle them. One Western advantage : satellites can be flung thence into polar orbits (see diagram) without hazard to populated areas...
...chance to own gold bars holds an appeal for both ultracautious and speculative buyers. Investors willing to pay cash, forgo dividends and interest, and accept the hazard of a gradual decline in the buying power of their money, can get high safety and liquidity. Speculators can buy a 1-kilo bar for as little as $34 margin plus $63 a year on the unpaid balance, stand to turn a handsome profit if the price of gold should rise. In effect, they bet that the U.S. Treasury, which has been able to corner more than half of the free world...
...city claims that it costs $30 to provide and install a stop sign. Three signs, one at Mill and two on Bow Street, would remove a significant traffic hazard. It is more charitable, if perhaps less realistic to assume, that the City of Cambridge is lazy rather than concerned about spending another $90. The City should rouse itself from a lethargy that might result in injury or death...
What trapped the men was a "bump," a hazard peculiar to Nova Scotia soft coal mines, in which excavated seams compress with near-explosive force, sending up clouds of gas. Coming at 8:05 p.m., the rumbling shock tumbled dishes all over town. At the colliery, the miners' wives looked at the tagboard and waited. Only a few sobbed. Within an hour volunteer rescuers arrived, each toting 45 Ibs. of special oxygen equipment, and started down the 13,800-ft. shaft. Eighty-one survivors were brought up, their faces blank with shock. But the faces of the others were...