Word: hazards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BUSINESS). In 1970 Congress passed environmental protection and industrial safety acts that empower the Government to seek court orders banning certain methods of production, and even closing down some plants in basic industries-notably autos, steel, oil, electric power and coal mining-when they violate federal pollution or job-hazard standards. By 1975, federal officials will be responsible for almost as many basic decisions in auto design as the auto companies' engineers. Stiffer regulation, however, is not a constraint on free enterprise. In an increasingly large and complex economy, regulation is what prevents the pursuit of profit from leading...
...have experienced vast layoffs; the author himself has not communicated with his readers for seven years. And Holden Caulfield-has his voice been muted by his creator's silence? What happens to a prodigy two decades after his debut, when he is pushing 40? An admirer can only hazard a guess...
...only limitation SDS now intends to place on the number of people attending the convention is the capacity of the buildings posted by the Cambridge Fire Department. "We won't overcrowd Lowell Lec so as to be a fire hazard," she said...
...smokers and nonsmokers alike, enters the bloodstream through the inner surface of the lungs, competing with oxygen in the process. The result is that the hemoglobin of the red blood cells carries less oxygen than normal, plus a load of the poisonous carboxyhemo-globin. Cigar smoke presents a hazard similar to that from cigarettes...
...have changed the basic fact of Soviet arms aid to India. But a pro-Indian policy would have antagonized Pakistan and its mentor Peking. Thus, apparently afraid that the President's Peking mission might be jeopardized, the Administration favored Pakistan over India. The Moscow summit was in hazard as well, since the big powers might have come to a direct confrontation over...