Word: healthfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film is one of five produced to inform the disabled and the general public of handicapped people's rights. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare is funding the series...
...would seem that the creation of a regional dumping site is the obvious solution--but it has met with vehement opposition from New Englanders, who fear that the low-level radioactive wastes are a health hazard. The federal government needs to undertake to determine the effects of the waste storage and the potential of on-site incineration. If, on balance, the dangers of waste outweigh the benefits of the medical research that produces them, then either the medical research should be halted or we should turn to on-site incineration, if it is feasible. If waste storage is safe, Harvard...
...failure to recognize the plant's potential impact on the community was inexcusable. The University ploughed ahead with its plans, advancing huge sums of money for its pet project. Harvard had to know that its diesel engines would produce nitrogen dioxides--said to be harmful to human and animal health in certain doses--but it sidestepped the problem. When community groups in the Mission Hill area broached the subject, the University blanched--and hired teams of experts to do air pollution impact studies...
Labor unions are as vital to workers today as ever before because "industrial safety and health remains a national outrage," Lloyd McBride, President of the United Steelworkers of America, told a crowd of more than 200 at the Forum last night...
...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, said yesterday the major danger is not the waste's radioactivity but its flammability...