Word: safe
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...cancer cell from a mouse is fused with a white blood cell that produces a specific antibody, then the hybrid cell can be cloned indefinitely and the antibodies separated from it. At the least, these monoclonal antibodies could be used for diagnosis of many ills; if proved safe, they might cure them. That all seemed a little remote to Greene, who was a successful marketing executive at Baxter Travenol Laboratories, but it stirred a response in Ivor Royston, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, who saw possibilities and began searching for someone to take...
...Romanov, 61, a civilian defense-industry expert from Leningrad, might replace Ustinov. Instead the post went to Marshal Sergei Sokolov, the First Deputy Defense Minister, who at 73 is the oldest man ever appointed to the job. As one Western diplomat in Moscow noted, the Kremlin opted "for the safe and the obvious...
McCarthy says, "We're not interested in punishing bikers. We just want to keep people safe...
Deaf Smith County, Texas. Named after one of General Sam Houston's scouts, this flat farm county in the Panhandle covers a salt bed that begins about 2,500 ft. below the wheatfields. Geologists seeking a safe radioactive-waste site have long favored salt formations because they are free of water, tend to reseal if fractured, and handle heat well. But farmers fear that their deep aquifers, used to irrigate crops, might become contaminated. In a state survey of 1,000 area residents, 73% said they would resist placing the dump there, and only 4% favored...
...Connor was about to wind up a chat with Attorney General William French Smith at the Swedish Ambassador's Christmas party, Beale swooped past the hors d'oeuvre table, greeted O'Connor and guided her skillfully to a brocade couch. She had reached safe territory. Even though the pair was surrounded by some 200 other guests, no one would have dreamed of interrupting a sit-down tête-a-tête at a stand-up party. Conversations conducted in the zone beneath a hand-held cocktail glass are, after all, strictly private affairs...