Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experiments with lethal weapons within this area be immediately ceased. If the experiments...should be judged absolutely necessary for the eventual well being of all people of this world...all possible precautionary measures to be taken (and) all human beings and their valuable possessions be transported to safe distances before such explosions occur...
...examinations at the Kwajalein Navy base, with doctors sending most of them back to their contaminated islands. People from the Utrik islands had received "small am-mounts of radiation (14 rads) and could therefore return home," Brookhaven National Laboratory doctors found. "Their island was only slightly contaminated and considered safe for habitation...
...January 1968 report to the Board of Overseers, Pusey vocalized his hardline stance in a way that heightened the anger of protestors. "Safe within the sanctuary of an ordered society, dreaming of glory, they play at being revolutionaries and fancy themselves rising to positions of command stop the debris as the structures of society come crashing down," he wrote...
...ground were, quite rightly, granted medals. But so were a number of chairbound bureaucrats who got no closer to the fighting than an office in the Pentagon. While there were 275 decorations for valor, wounds or combat deaths, the Army also honored some troops who remained in the safe environs of Army bases like Fort Bragg, N.C., waiting to be called. Defending the awards, which the other services handed out more conservatively, against charges of "medal inflation," Army Spokesman Major Robert Mirelson argues, "Within the military, we do not get bonuses or extra vacation time for a job well done...
...maintains 136 embassies around the world, 135 of them in foreign capital cities. The odd nation out: Israel. Jerusalem is the capital, but the American embassy has always been in Tel Aviv, 40 miles northwest, a safe diplomatic distance from the divisive international disputes concerning the status of the Holy City. Now, however, momentum is gathering in Congress for a politically motivated, election-year bill that would require the State Department to move its Tel Aviv embassy to Jerusalem. Last week President Ronald Reagan ventured into this tangled debate with an oblique threat to veto the measure. Said he: "Like...