Word: safes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hearings came at an important time for both sides in the abortion fight. Next month the Supreme Court will hear the first serious challenge to Roe v. Wade since it became law. The original decision was based in part on the court's conviction that legal abortion is a safe option. Since then, pro-life forces have chipped away at the decision's medical premises. "These are extremely important conclusions," said Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York, who organized the hearings. Conceded Koop: "It's very difficult to separate abortion the moral issue from abortion the public-health issue...
Some, particularly the Chileans, whose estimated $600 million fruit and vegetable industry was crippled, felt the U.S. had vastly overreacted. FDA Commissioner Frank Young explained his action with the statement that he would rather be "safe than sorry," and many Americans no doubt agreed with...
Ironically, it was the Government's failure to apply a safe-rather-than- sorry standard to another fruit that set off a similar fruit frenzy a week earlier. It started with a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group, that apples treated with the growth regulator Alar were soaking small children with dangerously high levels of daminozide, a possible carcinogen. 60 Minutes aired the story, and actress Meryl Streep, now a leading lady in the fight against pesticides, was quickly booked solid on talk shows and Capitol Hill. Soon apples were ordered removed from school cafeterias...
...Translation: Welcome to our friendly airline. Sorry to wake you. We're just trying to make your flight as safe as possible. If the plane rips in half because the Machinists don't care about quality, passengers who can swim should come to the slide in the front of the airplane. Remaining travellers should read the safety card in the seatback in front of you, conveniently printed in Hieroglyphics and Sanskrit. You should then take a long, deep breath...
...capital, a factory -- and he is not afraid to abandon all this for a while -- and not even lose it, if he is elected to the Senate or the House of Representatives. He can work there for a while and then go back to his property. He feels quite safe. But I don't even have a ruble saved...