Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anxiety surrounding asbestos is based on its deadliness in massive doses, but many researchers contend that low levels of exposure are not necessarily hazardous. Since the mineral occurs naturally, trace amounts can often be found in fresh air and water. Yet the EPA has said that the only guaranteed safe amount of airborne asbestos is zero...
...need to hear some harmonic softeners, some quiet, to kind of quench the fire and calm yourself." But the fire cannot be fully extinguished. Though they abhor its destructiveness, those who lived through 1968 are still hooked on the energy, prisoners of their old freedoms. They may now feel safe, but they are sorry. For they were born, born to be wild...
...many countries the spread of information about how the AIDS virus is transmitted has helped slow down the march of the disease among some groups. Gay communities around the world have made "safe sex" the watchword, and the use of condoms is up -- with dramatic results. From 1983 through 1985 in West Berlin, one-fourth of the homosexuals and bisexuals at a single clinic tested positive for the virus. In 1988 the figure had dropped below 10%. In San Francisco up to 5,000 people first tested positive for the virus in 1981; last year the number of newly discovered...
...under control. But if you approach the poor in the inner cities, they don't see the disease as such a threat. They have so many problems besides AIDS that it is hard to focus on this one issue." People do not pay much attention to guidelines about safe sex, Weiss points out, if they have no home and little...
...choice forces also hope to persuade the American Medical Association to file a brief on the medical advantages of legal abortions. Advocates of such operations see them as the only safe alternative to often fatal clandestine methods, symbolized by the coat-hanger emblems on many pro-choice posters. The view that abortion at least does not harm women got a boost last week from a surprising source: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who, after a year of study, found no proof that women obtaining legal abortions suffered a greater incidence of physical or psychological harm than women who brought their...