Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound system is extremely redundant, with two mikes at every position, to ensure reliability. "In fact," Clancy says, "It's almost two separate systems, with only one on line. It's basically fail-safe...
Women trying to choose a contraceptive these days face a frustrating task. The list of safe, reliable alternatives seems to keep getting shorter. Driven by fears about adverse side effects, many women scrapped first the Pill, then the intrauterine device. Large numbers found themselves forced back to a centuries-old method, the diaphragm. Last week the Food and Drug Administration added a new option by approving the marketing of another ancient birth-control device, the cervical...
...Mars. The closest Jackson has come to finding a focus for his diffuse California campaign was to use environmental cancer hazards in the farmworker community of McFarland as a symbol of the causes that animate his passions. McFarland, Jackson declared, represents his concern for "the environment, toxic waste, safe food, clean water, health care, abandoned workers, safety ((and)) Mexican-Americans...
...this, why now? For years Wright has been operating in an ethical no- man's-land occupied by many members of Congress: that safe, vast expanse between a simple thanks for services performed and an envelope stuffed with cash. Congressman Newt Gingrich, who led the Republican move against the Speaker, did not include the allegations concerning the Texas savings and loan associations, perhaps because other Congressmen could be open to criticism for similar activity. Gingrich faced embarrassment, anyway, when it was revealed that he kept a $13,000 advance for a book he never wrote...
...high doses of psoralen caused skin cancer. Still, says Harvard Dermatologist Madua Pathak, Bergasol also contains sunscreen, which reduces UV absorption and cuts the risk to humans to acceptable levels. Harvard Colleague Robert Stern is not so sure. Says he: "I don't believe that using the agent is safe...