Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manufacturers and importers of hazardous chemicals to inform workers of the dangers. In August 1987, under court order, the hazard communication standard (HCS) was expanded to cover 70 million employees of 4.5 million companies that merely use the chemicals. The paperwork to inform so many people of every conceivable peril is enough to swamp some small businesses; florists, for instance, may need ten to 20 pieces of paper per petal that has been treated with chemicals by their suppliers. OSHA official Frank White stoutly defends the HCS. But last week he conceded at a congressional hearing, "Perhaps we underestimated...
...disagree with Randi on specific points," says Carl Sagan, "but we ignore him at our peril." "He's a national treasure," says Author Isaac Asimov. Randi's targets are less enthusiastic. A Popoff staff member calls him "the devil" and an atheist. He has been the object of hate-mail campaigns by some of his foes. All to no avail. Says Randi: "No blackmail, no threats, can cause me to back away from my chosen work...
While some dorm crew workers have discoveredinteresting or profitable items in the room, forothers the work has been nothing but tedious,tiring and dirty. Even the least messy jobs, likemaking beds, can be fraught with peril...
Noting that 40% of the disputed manuscript's pages contained quoted and paraphrased materials, Copyright Lawyer Roger Zissu sees a more limited peril. "Most historians and biographers don't write books that are that dependent on the subject's correspondence," says Zissu, who was not involved in the case but who successfully represented Gerald Ford's publishers when they sued the Nation magazine for printing key excerpts from the former President's unpublished memoirs...
...sensuality. But the song, Keith Sweat's soul hit I Want Her, doomed him. Some classic Motown would have given him a fighting chance: the familiar opening chords might have warmed the crowd before he even opened his mouth. But Sweat's ode to funky frustration was fraught with peril. Topping Billboard's soul chart, it was so hot that even the most gifted mimic could not have carried it off, at least not here...