Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argument for having a capability for waging limited nuclear war. It could buy time and prevent Washington from facing, at a moment of confrontation with the Kremlin, the dilemma of having either to capitulate or to order a massive atomic attack. But there is an obvious, enormous danger. Once the military nuclear threshold is crossed, there is no guarantee that the momentum can be controlled to keep the exchange limited. Warns Secretary Brown: The use of "any nuclear weapons. . . carries a very high risk, though not the certainty, of escalating to a full-scale thermonuclear exchange...
...excess of $400 billion a year." The nearly $30 billion spent annually on arms research and development is more than "is spent on the problems of energy, health, education and food combined." Does the money buy greater security? McNamara asked. "No. At these exaggerated levels, only greater risk, greater danger, and greater delay in getting on with life's real purposes...
...That danger is not so remote. In Tehran, the management of the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) is in tatters. More important, at the refinery in Abadan and the oilfields of Ahvaz, searing unrest among workers could blow up into crippling strikes. TIME Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst reports...
...passed by Soldiers Field on the bus ride back to the Yard, Reardon told the sad tale of how the oldest concrete stadium in the country is in danger of being condemned. An architectural engineering study has revealed weaknesses in its support system, and funds will have to be raised to prevent its decay and demise. Reardon told the committee that "parts of Baker Field at Columbia have been condemned, and it's very embarrassing to a school (not to mention its athletic director) to have it happen...
...Most doctors are very much opposed to this," Dr. Arnold S. Relman, professor of Medicine and editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, says. 'This is an area where the courts have no business operating." Any danger of a family disregarding the best interests of the patient can be avoided by requiring second and third opinions, he added...