Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people most at risk from this bill would be people participating in the Section 8 and 707 subsidy programs. Because landlords benefit from extra government rent payments (and the Housing Authority only subsidizes lowcost apartments) about 80 percent of those subsidized tenants now live in rent-controlled apartments. With a law like 1-2-3, any of these tenants seeking rent-controlled apartments would be left out in the cold. Extra rent payments cannot compete with condo profits...
...apply, just as before, to large buildings and landlords. But after you owner-occupy your single-family home or condominium for two years, you will be exempted from restrictions. This may actually increase the supply of rental housing, because owners who now sometimes keep their house vacant (rather than risk tying up their own home with complicated regulations) will now be able to rent without fear...
...Alar), a chemical that is used chiefly on red apples and that penetrates the fruit's skin, is the greatest cancer hazard. The NRDC predicts that daminozide use may cause one case of cancer for every 4,200 preschoolers. Though the percentage of children affected -- 0.024% -- is minute, the risk is 240 times the standard considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency -- one case of cancer per million...
...Exposure to four carcinogenic fungicides, including Captan and Mancozeb, may lead to one case of cancer per 33,000 to 160,000 children, two to seven times the allowable risk...
...Moreover, Ames points out, plants produce their own poisons to ward off pests. "The proportion of positive cancer tests is about as high for natural pesticides as for synthetic pesticides, and we are eating 10,000 times more of the natural ones," he notes. The NRDC insists that its risk estimates are conservative. They do not, for instance, take into account pesticides in milk or water...