Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inmates staged an uprising in a Caracas prison. Saturday morning, government officials were reporting nearly 100 deaths. Sporadic fighting continued, but with the capture of several coup leaders and the surrender of other rebels, the beleaguered Perez (his disapproval rating in a recent poll hit an astonishing 92%) seemed safe. Able to govern? Well...
...handling of Chernobyl is hardly reassuring. When workers finished the huge steel-and-concrete shell that entombs the intensely radioactive mass of the shattered No. 4 reactor in late 1986, Soviet officials declared the site safe for at least 30 years. Yet today the sarcophagus is cracked, crumbling and in peril of a disastrous collapse. The melted-down fuel is turning to unstable dust. Contaminated objects are being smuggled out of the poorly guarded 1,092-sq.-mi. exclusion zone. Birds fly into the sarcophagus through holes as big as a garage door; rats breed in the ruin. The structure...
Still, surviving Thanksgiving does not guarantee a safe future or a handsome batch of offspring. For more than 1,000 turkeys, the true day of reckoning rolls around as Christmas approaches...
...maintains that the older design is safe, but its own engineers seem to have raised questions about the outboard location as far back as 1970. GM submitted 70,000 pages of internal documents to the NHTSA last week as part of the agency's review of pickup-truck safety. In a memo dated Sept. 7, 1970, safety engineer George Carvil warned of possible fuel leaks in side collisions. "Moving these side tanks inboard," he wrote, "might eliminate most of these potential leakers." An internal memo dated Dec. 15, 1983, by product analyst Richard Monkaba, discussed the company's plan...
...cardboard box. Or when city officials want to sweep you away like litter when the tourists come to town. In a ruling designed to offer some civil rights, if not civility, to the homeless, a federal judge in Miami has ordered the city to set up two "safe zones," where those without addresses can eat, sleep and bathe without being arrested. Although the decision applies to Miami, similar legal challenges to anti-vagrancy laws are under way in Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York and elsewhere, and the Miami case breaks ground. Miami officials say they'll appeal the decision...