Word: safes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brown did condition his approval on a finding by non-government experts, due this June, that the Auburn Dam would be safe. The gigantic structure (4,200 ft. wide at its base and 700 ft. high) would be built in an area prone to earthquakes. U.S. Geological Survey scientists say there is a dangerous earthquake fault less than a mile from the proposed site. The Association of Engineering Geologists warned last year that an earthquake could shatter the dam, releasing a reservoir 40 miles long containing 736 billion gallons of water. The terrifying result: a 100 ft. high wall...
...Stevens employee's struggle to achieve a living wage and safe working conditions is a struggle for simple justice. The Harvard community should aid the textile workers by supporting the boycott...
...MEDICAL care system is not well. Politicians, academics and physicians agree on that. Even controversy-shy President Bok can feel safe writing in his latest annual report that society is deeply troubled over issues like the system's cost and the dubious benefits to health of the nation's massive outlays for care. Close to ten per cent of the gross national product is now spent on medical care. Bok suggests that Harvard--specifically the Medical School--should try to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of medical care. He also says the school should seek better ways of training physicians...
...criticisms are safe because they are nothing new. Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, saw these troubles in American medicine and was already working on a way to overcome them when he came to the school as dean in 1965. Ebert came with the hope of setting up an alternate system of care that would over-come the problems of impersonal, over-specialized, costly care. His political ability proved stronger than the inertia of the staid Medical School faculty, and in 1969 the doors of the Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) opened...
...suddenly run amuck at the chemical factory where he has been employed for years. After learning that mass layoffs are going to cost him and hundreds of his mates their jobs, he kills a supervisor and then himself. The lesson that there are no such things as safe niches in the modern world is too bitter for him to absorb...