Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That heady up and down movement creates headaches, Morrell says, because the trustees count on spending a certain percentage of the total endowment each year--lately 7 percent. If the account grows by more than that figure, Radcliffe is safe. But if the endowment grows less than 7 percent or even falls--as it did during the most recent year--the college must eat into the principal of the account...
...company drew the most fire for what neighbors said was its unwillingness to explain exactly what chemicals were in the dump. "I just want to see some facts. I want to see results that show that it's safe to start digging," said Toxic Alert Coalition member Wendy L. Baruch...
...Lebanese soldiers, suspecting a terrorist attack, opened fire with antiaircraft guns. Fortunately they missed their target, a private plane owned by the Saudi Arabian Golden Contracting Co. The pilot had veered off course while approaching Beirut Airport. Aerial traffic controllers were able to guide the jet to a safe landing...
...Episcopalians, DMS and its militant labor-union allies want to force the Mellon Bank and U.S. Steel to pump more money into the sagging local economy. Among its tactics: repeated harassment at worship services attended by executives and disruption of bank operations, notably by putting dead fish in safe-deposit boxes and skunk oil in ventilation ducts. Last week the noisome style of DMS culminated in the imprisonment of an activist minister...
...ranging from fish carcasses to old tin cans. Most important, say shark admirers, the number of people killed by Great Whites over the centuries is small, far less than those who die from lightning strikes or snake bites. But in the Red Triangle, at least, it is still not safe to go back in the water. -By Natalie Angler. Reported by Jeff Gottlieb/Los Angeles