Word: safes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cancer? To answer this and other questions about radiation hazards, President Carter in 1978 appointed an interagency investigative task force. Last week the team of scientists, lawyers and bureaucrats came to a troubling conclusion: while it conceded that researchers still cannot say for sure how much radiation is safe, it said that the amounts that they used to regard as safe apparently...
...impossible to distinguish the few [people] with radiogenic cancer from the larger group whose cancer was caused by other factors." What is more, it usually is impossible to determine just how large a dose of radiation a victim received. Consequently, although Califano professed dissatisfaction with the recommended safe level of 170 millirems a year (Americans typically receive 70 to 100 millirems a year from medical X rays), he said that the Government does not have enough information to lower permissible emission. While scientists seek more definitive information, he is directing the Food and Drug Administration to step up its efforts...
...companies is good for America's commercial broadcasting," says commission chairman and Columbia University president William J. McGill. Like its predecessor--which advocated an excise tax on all television sets--Carnegie II makes its proposals in a political vacuum. In arguing that spectrum fees will provide a "safe" flow of funds, the commission overlooks glaring precedent: At one time, revenues from gasoline taxes were to be dedicated exclusively to highway construction. Such illusions were shattered when environmental groups successfully lobbied to have Highway Trust Funds diverted for mass transportation...
...longtime backpacker (not a climber). I believe that there are safe and responsible ways to use the wilderness. I feel that Mr. Yates' climb was neither of these and, moreover, that it might jeopardize access to wilderness areas...
...Another safe guess is that Princeton coaches Bill Farley and Rick Schavone will be hot on the recruiting trail this spring hunting for a diver...