Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund. The pot was used for contributions to local and state officials friendly to Bell rate increases. Ward K. Wilkinson, the company's Austin lobbyist, admitted that he collected $1,200 a month from Bell executives for a political fund that was kept in cash in his office safe...
...cities erupt again, we will find no safe place on either side of the barricades...
...that might go down. And inflation gives them an attractive alternative investment by pushing up interest rates. Though interest rates wiggle up and down, they are far higher than in the early 1960s. So floods of investment money are being diverted from the stock market to seek a relatively safe, guaranteed return in bonds and other fixed-interest securities...
With the development in the mid-'60s of the modern hot-air balloon, equipped with a Ripstop nylon envelope and a lightweight propane burner, drifting aloft became a relatively simple-and safe-divertissement. In 1963 there were only six hot-air balloons in the U.S. A decade later the number was 300, and today there are nearly 1,000. In this age of Concordes and space shuttles, some 3,000 balloon pilots are licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, and perhaps twice as many friends and relatives serve as nonlicensed crew members...
Such statistics as exist seem to indicate that midwife-assisted birth is generally safe. During a test period in Santa Cruz County, Calif., 10% of the deliveries were at home by lay midwives. The infant mortality rate was lower than for the county as a whole (3.2 deaths, v. 15.1 per 1,000), though such figures may be misleading because predictably hazardous births were handled in hospitals. To support their claims, proponents of midwifery point to The Netherlands, where midwifery is widespread and the national infant mortality rate in 1975 was only...