Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role in the formulation of academic policy and a voice on other issues--have been set aside but not forgotten. The concept of teaching fellows' helping to set course methods and content or speaking out on general issues like the draft has a higher alienation potential than the relatively safe demand for more money to live on. The Feb. 15 meeting voted that the Federation should deal with issues of undergraduate education, but for the moment, the Federation will probably play it safe until it has had a chance to set its foundations firmly with bread and butter issues...
CRIME The "Safe Streets and Crime Control Act of 1967" would give the Federal Government little new authority and not even the germ of a national police force. But it would provide the funds ($350 million in the next two years) to induce city and state police forces, courts and correctional agencies to come to grips with the problem...
...ease of operation. The vehicles start like an outboard motor, are tractioned by rear tanklike belt treads, and steered by handle bars attached to two front-running skis. On steep downhill runs, they give the driver all the thrills he can handle; yet, piloted sensibly, they are relatively safe. In a spill, the driver is usually thrown clear into soft snow, and the snowmobile stops as soon as his hands release the throttle...
...plight of the patient in the 47 states with no legal control is understandably bad, but the resident of well-regulated California or New York is not necessarily safe either. Dr. Howard L. Bodily of the California State Department of Public Health pointed out that there is no federal law to prevent a doctor's signing up with a cut-rate laboratory thousands of miles away from his consulting room and sending his specimens by mail-regardless of the fact that delay may make many of them useless. Some mail-order laboratories have been caught sending out test "results...
...Necessarily Safe. As for results, several studies of laboratories that agreed to have their performance checked showed that up to 40% were unsatisfactory in testing for the presence of bacteria, up to 80% in identifying proportions of different blood cells, and up to 18% in such a standard and simple procedure as blood typing. The picture may be still worse in labs that refused to be checked...