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When asked if the struggle between Negroes and whites would increase when educated Negroes start competing for skilled jobs, Graham said, "It's a hazard. There is tremendous racial strife in Chicago because of this...
...length of time in the sun. Darker or neutral gray lenses with a light transmission averaging 20 per cent will screen the potentially-harmful untraviolet rays. For safety sake, these lenses should be of shatter-resistant safety glass or plastic. Tinted eyewear of ordinary glass offer an additional hazard to the eyes of a skier who falls or grazes a tree limb on a downhill...
...hazard in teaching new math is that its basic concepts-sets, number systems not based on ten, lattices-require profound comprehension by teachers, which usually entails plenty of upgrading study. Professor Robert Wirtz, an associate of Beberman's at the University of Illinois, visited more than 100 elementary schools all over the U.S. and reported: "The teachers I found are frightened. They don't understand the new math or why they are supposed to teach...
...year ago, a committee of impartial experts reported to Surgeon General Luther L. Terry that "cigarette smoking is a health hazard" and warrants "appropriate remedial action." Last week a dozen voluntary health organizations that have joined with three agencies of the Federal Government in a National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health met in Washington to assess what "remedial action" has been taken...
...college also claims that a long cord is a fire hazard. When asked if Cambridge has any laws against long cords, however, a spokesman for the fire department answered, "Of course not. What does that have to do with the fire department...