Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration was cautiously upbeat. "We don't have 50 firm commitments," said Schlesinger, "but we are optimistic." Said Mondale's Senate lobbyist, William Smith: "The momentum is on our side." But the pro-compromise coalition was fragile, and Carter's forces still faced the danger that last-minute lobbying by opponents might turn the tide when the compromise comes up for a vote, probably this week...
Asked if he foresees any danger of a Communist takeover, Sharietmadari said: "I am afraid that if the situation worsens, and it could, a foreign power will interfere. If the government would heed our warning, there would be no danger of Communism. If it does not, then I am afraid it will be the Communists' gain...
...vote opened up the lawmakers to charges of "legislating morality." The charge is true: indeed, most laws, such as those against theft and murder, involve moral judgments. When the danger of doing wrong is greatest, the legislature must be best prepared to decide along moral lines; in this case, while legal debate over the ethics involved prevented the legislature from taking a stronger stand, it did what it could to prevent the state from involving itself it what it saw as clearly wrong...
...inaugural speech showed moments of eloquence: "The danger for modern man is that he would reduce the earth to a desert, the person to an automaton, brotherly love to planned collectivization. The church, admiringly yet lovingly protesting against such 'achievements,' intends, rather, to safeguard the world that thirsts for a life of love from dangers that would attack...
...Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, N.J., allocated $20 million for a five-year experiment that established or expanded regional networks-three in California, two in New York and one each in Ohio, Texas and Arizona. All deliver specialized care for high-risk pregnancies, that is, those that pose danger to mother or child...