Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...automen say that the key to recovery is a rise in confidence among consumers that it is safe to go into debt to buy a new car. The carmakers have thus been troubled by the recent spurt in interest rates and a midsummer dip in polls measuring consumer confidence. But many Wall Street analysts believe that American motorists cannot sit on their wallets much longer. By some estimates, nervous consumers have put off buying 4 million cars over the past two years, creating a reservoir of demand that Detroit could well begin to tap with its 1976 models...
...millions of children go back to school this week, a distressingly high proportion of them will fail an important medical test. Though effective, safe and usually free vaccines are readily available, these children have no protection against at least four common, communicable and dangerous diseases...
...superior court judge's ruling that declared the strike illegal and ordered the policemen back to work, Alioto also tried to preserve calm among the city's 670,000 residents by strolling through the city's seedy Tenderloin district to demonstrate that the streets were safe. Exuding the slithery self-confidence that marks his campaigning, the mayor passed out roses to women, stopped to link arms with a grinning transvestite, and reaffirmed his claim that there was "no need for panic...
...occurred. Lightning flashed and a great noise like thunder came from the earth. Many houses were destroyed at once. Of the 2,000 people in the commune, only the 'stubborn ones,' who ignored the mobilization order, were wounded or killed by the earthquake. All the others were safe and uninjured; not even one head of livestock was lost...
...also bared many secrets. In June the company submitted a 539-page report, prepared by a special committee of the board, containing exhaustive information on how Ashland executives had managed to divert corporate assets into an $800,000 U.S. political slush fund that was kept hidden in a safe. The report also indicated that from 1967 to 1972 a CIA operative was on Ashland's payroll, and that the CIA reimbursed the company for part of his salary...