Word: dangering
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...property; the argument, of course, overlooks the fact that existing tactical nuclear warheads are also intended to kill people. More to the point, opponents believe that the neutron bomb's limited blast and short-lived radiation would invite its use in a crisis, thus increasing the danger of a conventional conflict escalating into a nuclear holocaust. But, as supporters note, NATO is a defensive alliance and the neutron bombs would only be used on allied territory to beat back a Soviet attack. Soviet propagandists have played artfully on the debate. In Pravda, for instance, President Leonid Brezhnev called...
...council action is good because it will alert people to the danger, but it doesn't get close to the root of the problem, which is that the government is spending millions of tax dollars to poison the very citizens who've paid the tax," Joshua S. Grossman, executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws, said yesterday...
Caldicott, who now lives in the United States, emphasized the inability of technology to destroy, safely and adequately, dangerous nuclear wastes. The man-made element plutonium is a particular danger since it is both a carcinogen and a key component in nuclear weapons. She said in her speech, sponsored by Natural Sciences 150, "The Biology of Cancer...
...course, the present program of undergraduate education does not do much better than would a core to prepare students to choose between many possible futures. But the particular danger of the Faculty's approval of the Core Curriculum proposal is that such a vote may stand in the way of truly meaningful reform. Historically, the Faculty revise the undergraduate curriculum only about once every 25 years. If the Core is implemented, it could mean that the Faculty will consider their job done, and their responsibilities to undergraduates fulfilled for a long time to come...
...lawyers, the U.S. retains one of the world's most accessible court systems and one of its most exhaustive lists of human rights. Much of the nation's strength flows from its respect for the law. But a long-is standing love affair with the law is in danger of turning obsessive and destructive ?if it has not already done so. Writing in the California State Bar Journal, J. Anthony Kline, a Yale-trained lawyer who serves as legal affairs secretary to California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., offers this catalogue: "The trial courts are in disarray, mechanisms...