Word: safes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House of Representatives. By giving Senators six-year terms, the founding fathers hoped for a senior body of thoughtful, experienced and judicious men who would temper the boisterous House, where membership is subject to total change every two years. Now the opposite is true. The House has become a safe haven for incumbents; 95% of those who sought re-election won this year...
...freedom, Thevis rented an apartment in Summerville, S.C. From a diary that an FBI expert says is in Thevis' handwriting, agents learned that he picked up clothes and funds from his Atlanta home within a week after his escape. So far, investigators have recovered $500,000 from five safe deposit boxes that were rented by Thevis under aliases...
...polemical warfare, many workers have become cynical about the system and are immune to exhortations and slogans. Middle-level officials, on whom Teng counts to translate his policies into action, constitute yet another obstacle to change. Many of these essential managers survived decades of turmoil by playing it safe. Some are still doing so, faithfully repeating Teng's modernization slogans while avoiding the decisive actions required if the plan is to succeed. Even Teng's most fervent supporters are afraid that the four modernizations program will survive only as long as its septuagenarian founder. Though it appears unlikely...
...Some clinics use an assembly-line system in which doctors perform operations within three minutes (a safe abortion usually takes about 15), do not administer anesthetics or do not wait for them to take effect, and race each other to see who can perform the most operations in a day. According to the investigators, Dr. Ming K. Hah of the Chicago Loop Mediclinic and Michigan Avenue Medical Center may provide the fastest and most painful abortions in Chicago. He makes a pencil mark on the leg of his scrub suit for each abortion and tallies them...
Perhaps Adrian had fallen. I looked down. He hadn't. But I might. I panicked momentarily because for the first time it finally dawned on me that any moment, with any slip, I could die, that, in fact, I probably would--especially since there was no safe way to get across the snowfield. The only thing to do was to sit and slide on the snow and try to halt before the rocks, which reared up like so many menacing bone-breakers, stopped me. So I did, and it worked. The snow even warmed my legs, which scared...