Word: preventing
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...About 7,000 people in the U.S. are killed by residential fires each year ?75% of them during the night. Up to 60% of those lives might have been spared by smoke alarms, safety experts contend. Says Richard Strother, associate administrator of the Commerce Department's National Fire Prevention and Control Administration: "We believe they're the single most effective piece of equipment ever devised to prevent fire deaths...
Efforts to prevent spills seem to be equally ineffective. The U.S. is doing a decent job of regulating American flagships, mandating such things as crew qualifications and training, navigational and safety equipment. But it has done little to regulate foreign ships, many of which are registered in Liberia and Panama to avoid U.S. or European taxes, wage scales and expensive?hence profit-cutting?regulations on crews and equipment. Liberia, which has no natural harbor, has the world's largest tanker tonnage?with some of its ships American-owned. Such ships and their crews frequently fail to meet adequate safety standards...
...therefore less dangerous doses. One device being tested by Dr. Daniel R. Mishell of the University of Southern California School of Medicine seems to hold unusual promise: it is a small (two-inch diameter), doughnut-shaped flexible plastic ring that a woman can insert into her vagina. It prevents conception, not by blocking the sperm, as does the diaphragm, but by releasing a small steady trickle of steroids into the bloodstream through the mucous membranes of the vagina. The quantity is sufficient to prevent ovulation, says Mishell, but should be low enough to avoid the Pill's potentially hazardous...
Lawton said yesterday he will do everything he can to prevent the same thing happening again, and called the roofs "a critical safety hazard." He said he could not estimate the cost of replacing the roofing with polycarbonite, but said the cafeteria had cost close...
...already know about the biggies. Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, Rotary, take your pick. Only the country and amount of money is changed to prevent too many Harvard people from running into each other...