Word: hazards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee's action stems from a proposal by Brent Dechene '70, who argued that bare feet are not a health hazard and do not affect the decorum of the University...
...highly legitimate. Our children, in being casual about drugs, far from being in revolt against an older generation, may in fact be acknowledging how influential a model that generation was." Add to that the painful adjustments that every adolescent must endure?the physical and emotional challenges of puberty, the hazard-strewn search for self-discovery ?and any drug can mean danger to all but the most stable. Like alcohol, marijuana may not be risky for a secure adult, but to an anxious teen-ager it offers a seductive release from the hard reality of growing up. His judgment...
...often, public officials shy away from curbing a suspected environmental hazard until a direct, incontrovertible relationship has been established. As Johnson explains: "We have reached the time when we can no longer postpone action while we try to dot every scientific i and cross every scientific t" When he was advised that color TV sets and microwave ovens are a potentially dangerous source of radiation, Johnson quickly alerted the public, then helped to write strict new radiation standards. To combat black lung disease, which now afflicts about 100,000 miners, he established interim limits on the amount of airborne coal...
...handy a printed card that reads: "The only purpose for your activity is to get results." He has always followed that advice. A native lowan and Purdue University engineering graduate, Johnson worked as an assistant commissioner of health in New York City, where he learned firsthand about another environmental hazard: urban decay. His practical experience and accomplishments in New York made him a natural choice to head the environmental service after it was created in July...
...subcommittee members. But Guttmacher, like a committee of 19 Planned Parenthood physicians that met recently, had a more serious concern. By no means all the unwanted pregnancies will result in babies. As many or more will result in abortions (see following story), most of them illegal, with the attendant hazard of serious illness or death...