Word: safely
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...rights leaders and gave them holy hell. The tongue lashing caught the attention of Richard Nixon. At the Republican Convention that summer, when it came time for him to pick a Vice President, he surprised everyone by coming up with Spiro Agnew. In Nixon's calculus, Agnew was a safe-bet border-state novice with no heavy baggage and a Greek-immigrant father, which would help with the ethnic vote. He had been known as a Republican moderate, based on his campaign for Governor against a Democrat who ran on what was then a racially inflammatory slogan: "Your home...
Coral reefs are more than beautiful structures admired by snorkelers and scuba divers. Their stony ramparts serve as storm barriers that protect shorelines and provide ships with safe harbor. Their nooks and crannies accommodate fish and shellfish that are important sources of food and livelihood for millions of people. And like the tropical forests to which they are frequently compared, reefs are repositories of vast biological wealth as yet untapped for medicinal and industrial uses...
...United States doesn't care a whit about the Kurds! The United States has been providing helicopter gunships to Turkey so Turkey can better attack Kurdish villages. A while back, Turkey was even allowed to invade the so-caled "safe haven" in northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurds...
That doesn't mean the FDA has declared Redux to be entirely safe. As a condition of approval, the agency is requiring Wyeth-Ayerst to do follow-up testing. "We're concerned," says Bilstad, "that there could be subtle effects that you can pick up only in a clinical study." Among the possibilities: troubling changes in mood, like depression and aggressiveness, that might derive from a serotonin deficit...
...Fosamax, a drug already shown to be effective in treating OSTEOPOROSIS in postmenopausal women, may prevent the condition from occurring in the first place. Touted as a safe, nonhormonal alternative to estrogen, the drug prevented bone loss in the hip and spine of 95% of women studied. To keep working, Fosamax requires daily dosing--for years...