Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desk job is supposed to be safe. No one needs a hard hat to type a memo or protective goggles to shuffle paper. But as the work force migrates from the shop floor to the corporate cubicle, millions of people face what some think may be a new health hazard -- the omnipresent video-display terminal, or VDT. * Basing their charges on a scattershot array of scientific data, union leaders claim that prolonged work in front of a computer screen can impair vision and cause headaches. Some critics say the work may even trigger miscarriages. The unions' campaign to win mandatory...
...over more fiery pro- perestroika candidates. At a meeting attended by Gorbachev to choose Moscow's delegation two weeks ago, Ivanov was confirmed as a delegate despite the Ogonyok attack, while the passionate playwright Gelman was not. There and elsewhere Gorbachev has shown a well-tuned instinct for the safe middle ground. When he dumped Yeltsin, the pro-perestroika Moscow party boss, from the Politburo earlier this year, Gorbachev was protecting one flank. When he later chastised Yegor Ligachev, a Politburo member regarded as the country's leading conservative, Gorbachev was guarding the other flank. "Left-wing phrasemaking...
...between our covers. The Hancock Award is one of 46 prizes TIME has won this year. The July 27, 1987, cover story, "The Gorbachev Era," earned the Overseas Press Club's Hallie and Whit Burnett Award as the best general magazine story on foreign affairs. "Air Travel -- How Safe Is It?" (Jan. 12, 1987) picked up an Award of Excellence from the Aviation-Space Writers Association. "Who's Bringing Up Baby?" (June 22, 1987) examined the day-care crisis and won an Exceptional Merit Media Award from the National Women's Political Caucus...
...dark cloud that had hung over Eastern and Continental airlines since April began to disperse last week. The two carriers and their beleaguered parent company, Texas Air, were judged safe and sound in an unprecedented Government inspection of the airlines' 636 jets and of Texas Air's management and finances. According to Transportation Secretary James Burnley, Texas Air is currently "fit, willing and able" to perform safely, but the Government warned that labor-management strife at Eastern poses potential future hazards. As a precaution, Burnley appointed William Brock, a former Secretary of Labor, to act as a liaison between...
...center of gravity is too high. Thus Consumers Union is urging the Government to order Suzuki Motor to buy back all 160,000 of the Samurais (base price: about $8,500) sold in the U.S. The car's importer, American Suzuki Motor Corp., strongly defends its product as safe...