Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chicken (and maybe too sensible?) to try streaking ourselves. So rather than be left out in the cold (figuratively streaking, of course), we naturally turn to streak jokes. Although habit-forming, there is no evidence that streak-joking is hazard ous to your health. Examples...
When his tasks as special prosecutor are finished, Jaworski will go back to Texas. Friends used to fret that like so many others connected with Watergate, he would return a diminished figure. That no longer seems much of a hazard...
...Swiss banks have custody of anywhere from $2 million to $6 million in royalties on his books?money that he had earmarked for "humanitarian purposes." Part of this could justifiably be used to ensure his family's future. Ironically, a new life of freedom might expose Solzhenitsyn to a hazard he never faced in Moscow: the constant, distracting attention of paparazzi and other celebrity seekers. So far he seems to be tolerating, if not actually enjoying the novelty. On arriving in Zurich, he smilingly acknowledged cheers from the waiting crowds...
After the work by Selikoff and others, P.C.C. officials ordered a study of the asbestos-dust hazard at Tyler in 1963. The report seriously underestimated the hazard. A 1966 dust survey found asbestos levels above recommended thresholds in many areas of the plant, and a 1967 survey by the U.S. Public Health Service's Division of Occupational Health confirmed that the levels were high, but did not warn of the health hazard. After a Labor Department study two years later reported the same conditions, respirators were issued to workers in the plant's dustiest areas. But, according...
...average of 23 vomitings and fainting fits per performance, and promptly jacked up the admission price. And although a crew of nurses was hired to help the sick and security guards to herd the crowds, and extra movie showings were scheduled, the authorities, citing the movie as a riot hazard, still intervened and forced the theater to distribute other prints of the movie throughout the Los Angeles metropolis. Then all these other theaters took similar precautions and met with similar over-population and stomach punchiness problems...