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...frequency of fire alarms also poses a safety hazard, officials say. The repeated alarms sometimes several in a single night at the same House--have bred a lackadaisical attitude toward evacuating. Students in some Houses have made it a custom to blast their stereo to muffle the strens. "If we had a real fire, everyone in Winthrop would just fry," says Winthrop Master James A. Davis...
...format for the meeting carries its own risks. As chairman, he is required to master a wide variety of foreign trade and political matters that have never been his strong suit. To ensure against embarrassing flubs, Reagan has held frequent briefing sessions with a shifting cast of experts. Another hazard is that the unstructured nature of the meeting will make it easier for the foreign leaders to air any conflict that they choose to bring up. Says one of Reagan's summit advisers: "There's no question that this is a riskier process. If anyone wants to generate...
...Vegas, a city where optimism is an occupational hazard, junketing television broadcasters were dealt a bad hand last week. The dealer, ironically, was the National Association of Broadcasters, a trade organization that usually touts the future of TV in royal flush terms. At a press conference during its annual convention, the N.A.B. released a study that resembled an elaborate good-news/bad-news joke. The good news: Americans are watching as much television as before. The bad news: they like it a whole lot less. "This study is a little daring for a trade association to reveal to its members," said...
Regardless of the size of the road, the rigs themselves may pose a safety hazard: critics say they are harder to control and more prone to jackknife than smaller trucks. Truck drivers assert, however, that tandem trailers, known in the industry as "double bottoms," are safer than smaller rigs because they have extra axles and better weight distribution. But there is little question that the larger rigs will batter the nation's interstate highway system, initiated in 1956 for trucks far less hefty than today...
These operations will complete an effort to eliminate the health hazard posed by asbestos insulation in the River Houses and Quad Houses which began approximately a year...