Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fled to Costa Rica in 1972 to avoid facing U.S. charges of embezzling $224 million from a Geneva-based mutual fund he controlled. Carazo vowed to have Vesco expelled "for the nation's health." But Carazo's victory mostly reflected the voters' concern about the danger of continuismo, the permanent entrenchment in power of the Liberation Party if it was not turned out for a spell...
...universally available microcomputers could turn into formidable weapons. Among other things, says Reddy, sophisticated computers in the wrong hands could begin subverting a society by tampering with people's relationships with their own computers?instructing the other computers to cut off telephone, bank and other services, for example. The danger lies in the fast-expanding computer data banks, with their concentration of information about people and governments, and in the possibility of access to those repositories. Already, computer theft is a growth industry, so much so that the FBI has a special program to train agents to cope with...
...Department of Buildings and Grounds has constructed a temporary wooden passageway under the west portico entrance to Memorial Church because plaster falling from the portico ceiling presented a danger to people using the entrance. B&G officials said yesterday...
...meeting, Canada's national and provincial leaders will gather in Ottawa to discuss means of righting the country's grave economic problems, which include a galloping 8.5% unemployment and 9.5% inflation. But underlying the talks will be a nervous awareness that Canada's 111-year-old confederation is in danger and that, as Montreal Novelist Hugh MacLennan puts it: "This country we have taken for granted might be lost...
Though the Star's market is heavily populated by job-secure Government workers and blessed with one of the nation's highest per-household incomes ($28,611 a year), the capital had for a time been in danger of becoming a one-newspaper town. Long Washington's leading daily, the afternoon Star two decades ago began slipping behind the aggressive morning Post in both circulation and advertising revenues. When sold to Allbritton in 1974, the Star's losses were close to $8 million. Allbritton installed tighter financial controls, trimmed the staff by about a third, persuaded...