Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maverick Economist Alfred Kahn has a penchant for candor that is both refreshing and dangerous in Washington. When he said that there is the possibility of a "deep, deep depression" if inflation continues to soar, the President was furious. Kahn responded by purging the word depression from his vocabulary and instead using "banana." So he now says: "We're in danger of having the worst banana in 45 years...
...real danger is that "the agreements might be insufficiently comprehensive, making ground forces in the European theater a new area of competition," Warnke said...
There is, of course, a contradiction between this course of secrecy and the exposure of the last four years. And there is, of course, a great danger, because secrecy can lead to unidentified power. Power in any form can be abused, but unidentified power has a particular potential for abuse. How then can we, are we going to provide for good intelligence for our country, and yet ensure against abuse? On the one hand, we can underreact and simply assume that the relatively limited number of abuses in the past will not be repeated because we are more conscious...
...threat comes from the Japanese, whose share of the Western European car market has jumped from .6% to 6% in the past ten years. The Japanese onslaught has also hurt European export sales, especially in the U.S. For the longer run, the U.S. automakers may pose a more formidable danger, now that they are making smaller, gasoline-sparing cars of the type that sell well in Europe...
...given time. For The Crimson to set itself up as an arbiter of taste, to impose our own standards of offensiveness on readers who are at least as intelligent and capable of choosing as we, is more than presumptuous. It also carries with it the seeds of capriciousness, the danger of unreasonably restraining the open discussion that it is our role to promote...