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Not dread, not global catastrophic, consequences nor fatal, equitable, low risk to future generations, easily reduced risk decreasing, voluntary... 

Dread, global catastrophic, consequences fatal, not equitable, high risk to future generations, not easily reduced, risk increasing, involuntary... 

FIGURE 5.58 Risk space has axes that correspond roughly to a hazard s dreadfulness (d) and the degree to which it is understood ... 

Familiarity. Risks from e.xotic tecluiologies create more dread tlian do those involving familiar ones. "A train wreck tliat takes many lives Iras less impact on people s trust of trains tlian would a smaller, hypothetical accident involving recombinant DNA, which is only perceived to have catastrophic inislraps . ... 

Dread. Tlierc are some illnesses tliat are feared more tlian others. Today tlierc is greater fear given to AIDS and cancer tlian tlicre is to astluna. 

While tlris qualitative technique is most commonly applied to operating process plants, it is also applicable to pilot plants, laboratories, storage facilities, or support functions. This comprehensive review is intended to complement other safety efforts and routine visual inspections. It should be treated as a cooperative effort to improve the overall safety and performance of the plant rather than as a dreaded intciference vvitli normal operations. Cooperation is essential. People tne likely to become defensive unless considerable effort is made to present the review as a benefit to each participant. 

In making an effort to miderstand the significance of risk analyses, it is helpful to place tlie estimated risks in tlie same perspective as otlier everyday risks tliat have been determined by a similar inctliodology. Table 18.7.1 lists a nmnber of risks for comparison. These have been derived from actual statistics and reasonable estimates." " People often overestimate tlie frequency and seriousness of dramatic, sensational, dreaded, well-publicized causes of death and miderestimate the risks from more familiar, accepted causes tliat claim lives one by one. Indeed, risk estimates by "experts and lay people (or "the public ) on many key enviromiieiital problems differ significantly. This problem and the reasons for it are extremely important because in our society the public generally does not trust experts to make important risk decisions alone. 

Furcht,/. fear fright, horror, dread, furchtbar, a. fearful, terrible, dreadful, flirchten, v.t. r. fear, be afraid, flirchterlich, a. frightful, horrid tremendous, furchtsam, a. timid. 

Scherz, m. joke, jest, fun, sport, scherzen, v.i. joke, jest, scherzhaft, a. playful, jocular, humorous, scheu, a. shy, timid, timorous, scheuen, v.t. shun, avoid, dread, grudge. — v.i. shy. 

We issue a mild caution. One must always be mindful of the temptation to see things not as they really are but only how they appear to be at the moment using whatever happens to be the most convenient or accepted way of looking at things. This is the dreaded solution in search of a problem phenomenon, disguised, in the case of physicists trying to make sense of the world, as the temptation to use whatever is the latest fad or theory simultaneously as a lens and litmus test for reality. 

Despite great advances in the understanding of the biology of the parasite, progress in terms of drug development has been dreadfully slow. 

Plaque rupture and the ensuing thrombosis commonly cause the most dreaded acute complications of... 

Tho dreadful tropical disease bilharzia is carried by water snails and one way to tackle the disease is to kill the snails with a molusciclde harmless to mammals and fish. Bayluscide (25) is made by Baeyer for this... 

PHOBIC DISORDERS profound fear of, and avoidance of, a dreaded object or situation. Agoraphobia. Fear of places or situations from which escape is difficult—can occur with or without a history of panic disorder Social phobia. Fear of social or performance situations Specific phobia. Fear of a specific object or situation... 

Other diseases that formerly required long-term hospitalization or complete isolation include tuberculosis and the dreaded leprosy. Only a generation or two ago, for patients to be told that they had such diseases... 

It was in the cold of the weeks after Candlemas that I heard of Johns death in the second fight at Saint Albans. It was like hearing of an ill prophecy fulfilled long dreaded, yet impossible to believe. King Henry had been rescued from the Yorkist rebels, but the Earl of Warwick had escaped with no small part of his army there would be more battles, not a doubt of it. 

I had dreaded this moment, but it was no easier for my dreading. S-sire, you—you do me a great honor, but it is one that I do not deserve, I managed to say, and felt him withdraw a little, though he still held both my hands. I—I must say no. I cannot be yours. ... 

For a dreadful moment I thought he was going to walk away without another word, and maybe he thought he would too I felt his body wanting to, only he didn t, he turned back to me. 

I washed in cold water as best I could, and by the time I was dry and dressed supper was ready, though that was cold too, because though Mark had got the range going it hadn t warmed up. I buried my gaze in my plate in dread of meeting his eye, because I didn t want him to know, not the way it had been. 

No man will speak of fear before a battle except to a dear friend, lest he be scorned. A captain may not speak of fear at all, lest the chill of it steal through his men. But now What may I do to drown my fear, with no clangor of battle in my ears, no glory to hope for, no blood on my hands, no great and dreadful moments when it is kill or be killed ... 

The biggest selling point wasn t health for the children or convenience for the women, however. It was ice cubes for the men, who, after all, controlled the family purse strings. Ad after ad praised the ease of making plentiful, sanitary ice cubes, free from sewage-tainted river water and from faucet meltage, a dreaded phenomenon that wasted 10 percent of a... 

It is hoped that this volume will contribute toward the ultimate elucidation of the molecular mechanism of induction of cancer by PAH. This knowledge will provide a rational basis for the design of approaches for the prevention and cure of this dread disease. 

Dr. ter Meer and his assistant, Dr. Struss, were on a trip in Hanover when the Jewish pogrom took place there, and Dr. Struss testified how, after they had returned to Frankfurt, he had tried to cheer Ter-Meer up. "I said that probably it was not so bad after all whereupon, Dr. ter Meer jumped up, as he so often did on important occasions, and pacing up and down, delivered a lengthy lecture on the events taking place in Germany — events which he spoke of as grave, dreadful from the human point of view, and the political consequences which were incalculable."... 

All these perplexities develop more and more the dreadful fruitfulness of the original... 

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