Word: risked
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...appliances and our health. It will be a time of tremendous national introspection. Such self-inspection may mean a redefinition of national goals--an admittedly difficult task. But as The Washington Post wrote in its April 1 editorial on Three Mile Island, such a reckoning of the "ethics of risk" must be the ultimate destination of the energy journey. If we are lucky. Three Mile Island will have set the process in motion...
MANY SCIENTISTS contend that nuclear power never can be made acceptably safe. Other experts assert that reactors are already safe enough, or at least reasonably close to such a level. But even if reactors are safe, the admittedly ever-present risk of human error may prove reason enough for serious objection to and possibly abstention from use of nuclear power...
...study conducted by doctors at the Medical School concludes that a new psoriasis treatment. known as photochemotherapy (PUVA), increases the risk of two types of skin tumors in certain high-risk patients...
...report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicates that most patients face no additional risk from the new technique, which uses a combination of ultraviolet light and special drugs...
...personal note for Britons, as garbage piled up in the streets, and schools and hospitals in many cities either shut down or operated part-time; in an action that offended the country's sense of decency and fair play, ambulance drivers went on strike, putting life itself at risk. By the end of a nasty winter, Callaghan's popularity had been severely damaged, while the new "concordat" struck between the Labor government and the unions was widely regarded as a sham. The settlements sabotaged Callaghan's principal economic policy, a 5% wage-increase ceiling. The failure...