Word: hazards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat?could not endure. His country was an economic cripple, with debts of $13 billon. It is now dependent on subsidies amounting to $5.4 billion from the U.S., Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil states merely to keep going. Egypt's parlous economic situation is certainly a political hazard for Sadat. Seventy-nine people died during two days of food riots last January in Cairo and Alexandria. The violence ended only when Sadat reluctantly rolled back price increases on wheat, oil and other staples...
...worth of damage. Part of the problem: the law authorized enough money for the Army's Corps of Engineers to make an inventory but not a detailed safety inspection of the nation's 49,500 dams. The inventory, costing $3.4 million, classified 9,000 dams as "high hazard" structures, not because they were necessarily faulty but because there could be substantial loss of life and property if any failed. The corps estimates that a full inspection to determine which dams need reinforcement would cost $367 million, but only $15 million is available under the 1972 law. Says...
Some Middle East experts argue that a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza would be more of a safeguard for Israel than a hazard. For one thing, such a state would not be entirely free. Even P.L.O. leaders now talk approvingly about having formal links with Jordan, whose ruler, King Hussein, desperately wants peace with Israel. Moreover, it is clearly in the interests of moderate Arab nations that a dangerously radical regime does not emerge in any Palestinian state. A radical Palestine would be as likely to stir up unrest in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the Arabs...
Researchers at the University of California have apparently already broken strict Federal rules recently designed to curb the potential biological hazards of recombinant DNA research. The California violation occurred in a well publicized experiment culminating last May when researchers inserted the rat gene that controls insulin production into bacteria that had not been certified for use in DNA experiments. The experiment created no hazard and researchers claim they destroyed it as soon as they realized their error. They later completed the experiment with certified bacteria...
...Hazard Balthuzar. At the Harvard Epworth Church, Sunday...