Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Millar said Citibank is making a safe investment in loaning to HBS students, who frequently go on to illustrious careers on Wall Street or as CEOs...
...highest per-capita incomes. Moreover, this is an economy that since the 1980s has been heralded as a global model of success. This is the very system that allowed Japan to climb to greatness out of the ruins of World War II. It was supposed to be fail-safe. And now it has to be scrapped? Not easy...
Just in time too. The recall two weeks ago of Duract, a potent painkiller that also killed a number of patients by causing liver failure, shows just how hard it is to develop an analgesic that's both effective and safe. But the demand for new pain medications is growing. Baby boomers are just starting to hit their arthritis-prone 50s. While the disorder currently afflicts 40 million Americans, the number could reach 60 million in the next two decades...
...however. That's where a new group of prescription medications, called proton pump inhibitors, comes in. "You don't just get better on these pills," Dannenberg exults, "you actually return to normal." And because the drugs are activated only in the acid environment of the stomach, they are very safe...
Another approach is Disney's Internet Guide, a preselected list of family-safe websites similar to Yahoo's Yahooligans. Since the pool of acceptable sites is limited, surfing here is a bit like going to the children's library. It also suffers from weird glitches. In testing, every time I typed in a potentially objectionable word, it retrieved a transcript of a (tame) interview between two of my favorite writers, Martin Amis and Will Self. That's a bug I could live with...