Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cooperstown course also has a lake that becomes a formidable water hazard on the final three holes, and accounted for Captain Berry's 86 for the 18-hole tournament...
...explanation: shoddy workmanship. Instead, it may have a more serious, generic cause: the rods, designed for and proved in a previous generation of smaller reactors, may simply not stand the higher pressures and temperatures of today's big reactors. Even so, the rods do not pose an imminent hazard to public safety-except in the unlikely even of a failure of the cooling system. Says a respected engineer: "We haven't the foggiest idea how this fuel would behave in such an accident...
This year's hazard was first discovered by a doctor in Charleville-Mezieres, in France's Ardennes region. Dr. Jean-Francois Elchardus became alarmed at the sudden and seemingly inexplicable deaths of eight of 15 infants he had treated last spring for diarrhea and large swellings on the buttocks, to which powder had been applied. When he sent several baby products to a laboratory for analysis, tests showed that one of them, a powder called Bebe (baby), was rich in hexachlorophene. The chemical made up 6% of Bebe. (U.S.-manufactured cleansers contain no more than 3% hexachlorophene...
...case some of your readers are puzzled by Mr. Rudy Vallée's recent attack on me in your Letters column (usually he writes nasty letters to my employers-now he's out in the open), let me hazard two possible explanations: 1) Mr. Vallée once taped a show of mine on which he did his stand-up comedy act-and we put it on the air. 2) It could just be the Generation Gap. I missed his prime when he was singing through a megaphone. I've only known him since he took...
Eleven BNDD agents have been killed in the past four years. The chief occupational hazard is the "little guy," who is apt to panic when he finds he has been dealing with an agent. A regular trafficker would "just back off and split," says Panella. "These guys don't like messy stuff." They do not hesitate to rub out a suspected informer...