Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waste in the face of hunger. It was wanton, cynical destruction of good food." Kohler and others claimed that many of the packages were marked with return addresses, but postal authorities insisted that only a handful were thus labeled, and that anyway, they feared a contamination hazard. Undeterred, the A.D.L. protesters intend to keep up their mail-a-matzo pressure on the Soviets...
...cents for cigarettes. At least one state, for its own tax purposes, has gone counter to the IRS; California officials have put Winchesters in the same category as cigarettes, raising the price to about 35 cents. Even so, little cigars do not have to carry a health-hazard warning on the pack...
...cancel their sales contracts. They urged the telephone company to cut off service to a firm that put a misleading ad in the Yellow Pages. Eventually, Schrag reports, "we had an impressive array of electronic gadgetry," including a tiny microphone that hooked onto a bra strap. "One hazard of a very young law-enforcement staff," observed Schrag wryly, was that the first time the device was to be used "our investigator forgot to wear...
...used more and more poisons to kill predators. In some areas, foxes, weasels, eagles and a number of other species have virtually disappeared. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency has banned 19 products containing cyanide, thallium sulfate, strychnine and sodium monofluoracetate. These poisons, said Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus, "represent a hazard to the public welfare through the indiscriminate destruction of our valuable wildlife resources...
Busing has emerged as almost the only issue in the March 14 Florida primary, and Wallace seems fairly certain to ride the much-maligned yellow vehicles to victory there. In both North and South, the school bus is emerging as an unexpectedly dangerous hazard on the road that Democratic contenders have to travel to reach their party's nomination for President. The number of politicians still willing to speak out unequivocally against all antibusing moves was dwindling, but at least three persisted: Florida Governor Reubin Askew. New York Mayor John Lindsay and Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Protested Ribicoff...