Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light of this uncertainty, and the unprecedented carcinogenicity displayed by EDB in the NCI animal study, it would seem that Ware and Vaida were taking temporary chances with other peoples' health, for the sake of an introductory chemistry lab. Their decision disregarded NCI's conclusion that its findings indicate a potential threat to human health...
...respect we wholeheartedly agree with Professors Ware and Vaida: it is unfair to single out EDB without considering all the other potential hazards of the laboratory. Considering the attitude demonstrated in the case of EDB, it seems to be time for a thorough, independent review of all health and safety hazards in Harvard's research and teaching laboratories...
Kitchen conditions are returning to normal after this month's outbreak of Salmonella, although dining hall salad bars still do not include chopped eggs--a salmonella carrier--and University Health Services (UHS) is still taking a few last cultures from part-time dining hall workers, Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant director of food services, said yesterday...
Since the 1960s, the average annual increase in the nation's productivity has fallen from 3% to about 1%, and the blame lies partly with excessive regulation. In a landmark study, Economist Edward Denison of the liberal-oriented Brookings Institution calculated that environmental, health and safety regulations cut 1.4 points per year from U.S. productivity growth between 1967 and 1975. "There can be no doubt," says a study by the President's Council on Wage and Price Stability, "that much of the productivity collapse in mining and in utilities can be attributed to social legislation that protects...
...regulation are inflated by businessmen. They also claim that such calculations fail to take into account the hidden costs of dirty and dangerous production and do not allow for the social and invisible economic benefits of regulations. How, they ask, can anybody put a price tag on life and health? What is a few billion dollars here or there if thousands more workers will not suffer and die from cotton-dust poisoning or asbestos-caused cancers? Says Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, in support of stern safety and health regulations to protect workers: "A relaxation will increase the real social costs...