Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the ownership of property "does not constitute for anyone an absolute and unconditional right. No one is justified in keeping for his exclusive use what he does not need when others lack necessities." The document warned prophetically that rich nations must share their wealth with poor ones or risk "the judgment of God and wrath of the poor...
WASHINGTON--A report released by the National Institute of Health (NIH) yesterday said that certain brands of cigarettes are low enough in tar and nicotine that smokers can consume up to a pack a day "without apparent risk...
Though the report does not say that smoking these brands is totally safe, it does indicate that smoking these "low-tar" cigarettes in low quantities poses "no apparent risk," Gio Batta Gori, head of the NIH smoking and health program, said yesterday...
...Research, criticized the Delaney clause, the law that requires the FDA to prohibit the use of any food additive shown to induce cancer in laboratory animals. In a 700-page report to FDA Head Donald Kennedy, Cranmer argued that the law failed to take into account that the potential risk of cancer from saccharin might be outweighed by possible benefits to diabetics or the obese...
Cranmer called for a better assessment of the risks and suggested that more research be done. Otherwise, he said, because of "current toxicological ignorance, we might act needlessly in an effort to eliminate a given carcinogen which, if the methods of quantifying risk existed, could prove less significant than a lifetime exposure from a package of cigarettes...