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...Fire Hazard...
When Gates ordered the phone company to stop these modest extensions, calling them a "tripping hazard," Cliffies took more drastic measures...
Inconclusive Results. Last week, despite the hazard of winter storms with hurricane winds, two other rigs also drilled off West Germany for a German-American consortium. More rigs are converging on the area from as far off as Borneo, and shipyards from Belfast to Kiel are turning out drilling platforms to overcome a worldwide short age. All this activity is a result of the mammoth pocket of gas that was discovered in 1959 by Esso and Shell in the coastal Dutch province of Groningen near the German border. Seismic tests have since convinced oilmen that the North Sea may contain...
...length of time in the sun. Darker or neutral gray lenses with a light transmission averaging 20 per cent will screen the potentially-harmful ultraviolet rays. For safety make, 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 grases a tree limb on a downhill...
...live in hazard and infinity," Fowles writes. "The cosmos stretches around me, meadow on meadow of galaxies, reach on reach of dark space, steppes of stars, oceanic darkness and light. There is no god in it, no particular concern or particular mercy. Yet everywhere I see a living balance, a rippling tension, an enormous yet mysterious simplicity, an endless breathing of light. And I comprehend that being is understanding, that I must exist in hazard but that the whole is not in hazard. Seeing and knowing this is being conscious; accepting it is being human...