Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Monday afternoon, a Chevrolet station wagon carrying five Palestinians drove slowly down the Rue Verdun in west Beirut. As it passed a parked Volkswagen, a huge plastique bomb turned the street into a violent shambles of smoke and flames. The occupants of the station wagon were mortally wounded; four passersby, including a German nun and an English student, were killed, and 18 others were injured...
...crib alarm may aid those rescues. Tested since 1973 at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, the device consists of an electrode belt strapped on a sleeping baby, and a nearby monitoring machine that blasts a 70-decibel alarm (about as loud as a smoke detector) if the baby stops breathing for 20 seconds or if its heart slows. Of 270 apnea-prone babies enrolled in the program, three died when the device failed to rouse their parents. Since then, the alarm has been made louder, and 60% of the babies have had attacks with no fatalities; 160 have graduated...
Corrosion in smoke detectors and individuals smoking too near these detectors caused a series of fire alarms in Baker Hall at the Business School in January, a spokesman for the fire equipment division of Buildings and Grounds said yesterday...
...found in Bogota's dope marketplace, just behind the Bogota Hilton. One of the traders, known only as Ricardo, touts a red hashish from the Llanos area. He waves a smoldering lump of it on the tip of a needle in front of his clients. As the smoke does its magic, he smiles and exhorts the potential buyers, "Just taste the quality...
...Washington press conference, Califano noted that consumption of cigarettes dropped by three-tenths of 1% last year, which translates into 2 billion cigarettes. Though the percentage of Americans who smoke has been declining, 53.2 million still have the cigarette habit -about the same...