Word: obvious
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...term. Instead, they decided to study the problem further, "discuss" the test results and then choose the appropriate--presumably soothing--language with which to inform Harvard affiliates of tainted water. Rosenthal said that he and Dr. Warren Wacker, former director of UHS, felt that the THM levels posed no "obvious health risk...
LAST week, we argued that the "lessons from this disgraceful episode are painfully obvious." This week these lessons are only more obvious. The secretive committee that makes University health decisions must publicize its proceedings and pledge to inform the community of all health risks. The layers of bureaucracy--each with its own explanation of the water situation--must be revamped and streamlined...
...seek confirmation, though they will still rely on a hunch. Last fall Washington Times gossip writer Charlotte Hays heard that actress Kelly McGillis, who had signed for the season at the Shakespeare Theater at the Folger, was pregnant and would leave months early. "The accuracy of the rumor was obvious from the way the Folger reacted. They said, 'Oh dear, she'll have to talk to you.' " Even though McGillis didn't call back, Hays confidently went ahead, and the item was soon confirmed...
...first official act as New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs was to fire off a letter last week to Louis Gerstner, chairman of RJR Nabisco, the cigarette maker's parent company, criticizing the use of a cartoon character in Camel ads. "Isn't this ad campaign an obvious attempt to lure children into smoking?" Green wrote. Meanwhile, New York Governor Mario Cuomo said he would back a bill to ban most cigarette-vending machines because they make state law prohibiting sales to minors "largely unenforceable...
...attraction of alternatives is obvious. It costs $6 billion each year just to house the nation's inmate population, an amount that would pay for 250,000 residential drug-treatment slots. "It's time for a radical restructuring of priorities in our penal system," says New York Congressman Charles Rangel, who is sponsoring a bill that would provide $800 million to support alternative programs for drug offenders...