Word: safe
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...capacity may be part of the problem. "There are tremendous amounts of overtime and rushed training," charges David Kushner, of the American Federation of Government Employees. FAA officials have not yet decided whether to challenge the calls for union elections. But FAA Chief Donald Engen insists, "The system is safe...
...exploit this caricature of an out-to-lunch President, Mondale will portray himself as "Mr. Competence," a hands-on executive who is familiar with the levers of power and how to pull them. Says Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Matthew Flynn: "Fritz is decent, safe and steady. People trust him to do the predictable thing. He won't tamper with Social Security or go to war." Mondale says he is eager to show his steadiness, and expose Reagan's tenuous grasp of the issues, in "several" TV debates...
...Soviets withdrew from the Olympic Games not because they feared their athletes would not be safe, nor to "get even" for President Carter's removal of American athletes from the Games in Moscow in 1980. The real reason: they fear defection by their own athletes...
Meanwhile, the majority of the Afghan recruits went to Pakistan, where the CIA has for three decades run a topnotch network of agents and safe houses. "The CIA archives on Pakistan are perhaps the best in the world," a Western diplomat notes. "When the CIA pipeline first moved in, there wasn't a path into or out of Afghanistan that they didn't have mapped down to every physical detail." Better yet, nearly half of the almost 5,000 ships that unloaded goods in the Pakistani port of Karachi last year were carrying cargo from the Persian Gulf...
Relief is now in sight. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania an nounced last week that early trials with a vaccine showed it was safe and 100% effective in warding off the disease in children. If the promising findings hold up, predicts Pediatrician Robert Weibel, who directed the study, "I do foresee this being used on all children as a routine immunization." Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories, which is producing the vaccine, hopes to have Food and Drug Administration approval in time for inoculation for the 1986-87 winter season...