Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already resulted in several significant moves by the English political parties. The Conservatives have least to lose in Scotland since they control only 21 seats, mostly in rural areas where squirearchical traditions are still strong. The industrial towns of the Lowlands, however, have always been among the safest of safe Labour fiefdoms. Labour needs the 32 Scottish seats it now has to maintain its majority in Parliament, but its concessions to Scottish national feeling came too little and too late. Labour promises about the same as the Conservatives--a consultative assembly with power over aspects of housing, education, and welfare...
Labour's short-term stake in these Scottish seats is large enough to justify his attitude. Along with Wales (where the nationalist party Plaid Cymru has made significant though much smaller inroads on Labour strength), Scotland is the key to any Labour victory. If it were not for its safe seats in Scotland and Wales, Labour would have lost every general election in Britain since...
Some $25 million of the $169 million holdings benefitting Rockefeller and his immediate family is socked away in safe-and tax-exempt-municipal and state bonds. And the $140 million in common stocks reflects a man who need take no risks to build up capital...
...kept at home. Business leaders at two minisummits in Pittsburgh and Detroit insisted on their right to raise prices and asked for greater depreciation allowances to increase production. Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II proposed at least a five-year moratorium on most Government orders to install new safe ty and antipollution equipment in cars...
...disease shortens breath, causes chronic coughing, renders its victims incapable of sustained physical exertion and eventually kills. Less predictably, but in tragic numbers, asbestos produces cancers of the lung, colon or stomach (TIME, Jan. 28). No level of exposure is known to be safe. Children playing around asbestos dumps, wives who wash the work clothes of their asbestos-laborer husbands and people living near asbestos factories have been affected...