Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of the College's effort to isolate the current salmonella infection includes a moratorium on the hiring of temporary employees in the dining halls--a move that comes almost a month after a Freshman Union employee objected to the use of the temporary workers as a possible health hazard...
...respect. At the Kurchatov, for example, scientists seemed blissfully unconcerned as visiting journalists leaned against flimsy railings to gaze down into an open experimental pool reactor and marvel at the blue radiation glow that emanated from its fuel rods. While the radiation itself was under water and posed no hazard, a dropped camera or notebook, not to mention a reporter who might have fallen into the pool, could have contaminated the reactor and forced its shutdown...
...long will the conservative climate last, and how far will it go? Few political experts will hazard a guess. They are all too aware of the dizzying changes in U,S. politics...
...preppie clothes; Locoste shirts and khaki pants are recommended. Topsiders are passe. Scoff at naive enthusiasm with a knowing, sardonic grin. Categorically refust to be excited or amused by anything with a knowing, sardonic grin. Categorically rufuse to be excited or amused by anything except yourself. Potential hazard: everyone will have your guts. In many cases, that's exactly what you want, because they'll never bother you again, and that's what you want...
...both its public and private spheres, the nation is rightly acting to reduce many of the risks that people have no choice but to hazard-on the road, in factories, in the natural environment, even in the field of speculative finance. But plainly, the spreading eagerness to avoid all risks and to find culprits for all injuries is going too far. The attitude rests on a refusal to to accept fate or personal folly as the real source of many of life's bumps. It is as if society is beset by the Utopian dream of a world that...