Word: hazardous
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...Government has long denied the claims of area families that fallout from the testing posed a health hazard. Last week the residents' case was bolstered by a previously unpublished piece of evidence: a 1965 U.S. Public Health Service report on two southwestern Utah counties indicating that from 1950 to 1964 there were nine more deaths from leukemia than expected in a population of 20,000 (28 vs. 19). The study, uncovered by the Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act, had long been ignored by the U.S.P.H.S. because, as its author admitted, the pattern of deaths was inconclusive...
...would change the equations of power, from Egypt and Ethiopia all the way east to Pakistan. The helplessness of the U.S. to shape events in Iran is beginning to sap Saudi Arabia's confidence in the ability of the U.S. to protect the region from Soviet penetration, a hazard that some American officials fear is every bit as threatening as the Soviet thrust into Europe of the late 1940s and early 1950s. As a result, the Administration intends to deliver a stern warning to the Soviets through private channels not to exploit the situation...
What keeps such cases droning on is that the lawyers on both sides, trained in caution to begin with, "run an enormous risk by not touching every base," says Yale Law School Professor Geoffrey Hazard. "Look at IBM. If the Government wins, it'll be like dismantling a political state." With the stakes high and their meters running, lawyers are in no rush to judgment, he explains. "Many antitrust counsel make a professional specialty out of procedural maneuver," states a draft of the final report of the National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures. "Many others...
...Government shares some of the blame for delay. "Like the Vatican," says Hazard, "federal agencies have a certain timeless interest." A Wall Street Journal editorial charged that in the IBM case the Government spent 5½ years in preparation and took three more years to present its case at trial...
...Crimson came back in the third period, as Sara Fischer took Huber's across-goalmouth pass and deposited it behind Hazard to set the stage for the last-second heroics...