Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article "Occupational Hazard" [Nov. 1] you referred to the story The Emperor's New Clothes and claimed it was first described by Hans Christian Andersen in 1837. This is entirely incorrect. From our current study of Spanish literature, we know that the idea for The Emperor's New Clothes was first conceived by Don Juan Manuel, who lived from...
...averaging 3,700 Ibs., to 6.4% in domestic compact cars averaging 2,800 Ibs. and to 9.6% in foreign compacts averaging 1,900 Ibs.*Haddon predicts that insurance companies will carefully consider higher charges for policies on small cars and their riders, in order to reflect the greater safety hazard...
...crackdown stemmed from complaints to the police and the Administration that bicycles were causing a hazard to blind and disabled students walking in the Yard. One student was hospitalized last week for injuries suffered in a bicycle accident...
...products actually generate more pollution than their predecessors. Detroit's high-powered cars are far more polluting than prewar models. Even worse, pollutants can be synergistic. "If the levels of sulfur dioxide and a carcinogen [cancer producing substance] in polluted air are both doubled," Commoner explains, "the resulting hazard is much more than doubled, because sulfur dioxide inhibits the lung's self-protective mechanism and makes it more susceptible to the carcinogen...
...caused by inhalation of trace amounts of chemicals that were present in the O.R. atmosphere. The researchers urged further studies to determine whether there is a cause-and-effect relationship. But the authors are not waiting until those studies are completed before issuing a warning about the newly recognized hazard. They have installed better air-filtering machinery in operating rooms at Stanford and suggested that physicians treating pregnant women avoid anaesthesia whenever possible...