Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem with the massive use of de-icing salts-in addition to the havoc they wreak on automobile underbodies-is that they damage roadside vegetation and, more important, seep into nearby water supplies. The salts not only give the water a brackish taste, but can be a genuine health hazard as well. In Massachusetts, 62 communities were warned by the state health department last year that their drinking water contained enough sodium to endanger the lives of people with heart or kidney ailments who were on strict low-salt diets. Tests in Minnesota disclosed that even the anticorrosive additives...
...response to such complaints, some chemical companies are trying to figure out ways of taking the sting out of deicers. Meanwhile, it is hard to argue with highway officials who insist that banning the deicers would present an even greater hazard to public health and safety. As evidence they cite the example of Burlington, Mass., which last December decided to ban the use of salts on its roads after detecting high sodium levels in its drinking water. This winter the community's schools have been closed more often than those of neighboring towns because of icy roads, and minor...
Overcrowding is an issue in every city, a hazard for growth. Expansion beyond the employment base is a real waste of the city's resources, and painful for the jobless. Building new housing inevitably brings outsiders in; and regardless of the condition of the vacated apartments, they are rented again. Additional units do act as a leveller on rents, and there is no question that Cambridge is in need of at least some new housing...
...Chicago." Now the President intends to remedy that, and with good political reason. While he has successfully neutralized Viet Nam as an issue, domestic difficulties-notably the state of the economy-damaged the Republican showing in the 1970 elections. Nixon's own chances for re-election are at hazard in 1972, so it is no surprise that he has now turned about to tend to the nation's needs at home...
...population of 20,000. has only 300 today, most of them members of an Israeli kibbutz that operates a coffee shop selling apple strudel, beverages, and busts of Golda Meir. Moshe Dayan and David Ben-Gurion. Smaller Syrian villages are being bulldozed. "They had become a health hazard," explains an Israeli officer. "They provided refuge for stray dogs, cats and fedayeen." Some Golan fields still carry red-triangle signs denoting Syrian minefields. Others are lush with wheat and cotton grown by Israeli kibbutzniks who ride in tractors with armor plating on the side...