Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yard dash--Phillip Hazard of Boston College...
...publishing new rules that, after a review period of 45 days, must be observed by importers of 3.3 million animals per year. In the past, almost any species was allowed easy entry to the U.S. provided that it had not been proved to pose a health, safety or ecological hazard (by the time the proof was available, the damage had often been done...
...fundamental failure of Chris Healey's production of The Pelican lies in its inability to immerse the audience in the mood and theme to the point where plot would become irrelevant and melodrama less of a hazard. Unhappily, the visual and aural effects through which Strindberg intended to achieve this are unsuccessful. Admittedly, conditions in the Ex don't make things any easier. The not-so-mysterious rocking chair rocks frantically and becomes at first funny, then ridiculous; a letter leaps, rather than flutters, off a table; vitally important silences and pauses are mercilessly trampled over. Delicate changes of mood...
...time a customer paid $4 for a small glass nut dish, then announced triumphantly that it was made by Steuben. Another customer returned to gloat that her 50? string of pearls had been resold for $50. Veterans of thrift shops generally agree that there is only one major hazard of secondhand shopping. As Jean Halla of Evanston, Ill., puts it: "Don't put your coat down and walk away. Somebody is likely...
...that their displeasure with the "radio hooligans," who usually steal hard-to-get parts for their transmitters from state factories, is more practical than ideological. The music and chatter of the pirate stations are sprayed so widely across the medium-range radio frequencies that they have become a communications hazard. In Donetsk, many of the illegal transmitters were on the frequency of the railway switching station of this important industrial center. On the inland Sea of Azov, riverboat skippers complain that they cannot hear routing orders because of interference by Elvis Presley tapes. Judged even more hazardous, however, were...