Word: dangerous
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Escalating spot market prices are, if anything, a bigger threat to the world economy than is the ever present danger of a cut in supplies. With spot prices now hovering at $40 or more per bbl., nearly twice the maximum official OPEC price of $23.50 for oil sold under contracts of three months or more, OPEC members are clamoring for a hefty new increase when the cartel meets in Caracas on Dec. 17. Notes a top Carter Administration official: "Spot prices are the locomotive now dragging OPEC prices along." Adds Data Resources' Eckstein: "Our present forecast has OPEC prices...
Most of the pipes in the University are probably insulated with asbestos, but there is no danger until the outside covering wears out, he said...
...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, told the council and an audience of more than 100 that "the chief danger from these wastes is that the chemicals they are dissolved in are flammable. The levels of radioactivity are comparable to nature," he added...
University officials stressed that the crisis is mostly over. "The Washington dump will reopen soon," Walter Milne, an MIT spokesman, said, adding that MIT had never been in immediate danger of having to stop research efforts...
...both British and Irish politics. What the I.R.A. did to him is what Mountbatten had been doing all his life to other people; and with his war record I don't think he could have objected to dying in what was clearly a war situation. He knew the danger involved in coming to this country. In my opinion, the I.R.A. achieved its objective: people started paying attention to what was happening in Ireland...