Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Away from the wreckage, I was out of danger. I counted nine cars derailed. At the front of the train, in a horrifying scene, five cars had become a single heap of metal. Within minutes, fire trucks and helicopters arrived. Rescue workers kept passengers away from the train and began the gruesome task of rescue work...
...Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, is considered the most comprehensive of its kind. The Minnesota researchers report the results of six-day tests of their subjects, including 44 pairs of identical twins who were brought up apart. Well-being, alienation, aggression and the shunning of risk or danger were found to owe as much or more to nature as to nurture. Of eleven key traits or clusters of traits analyzed in the study, researchers estimated that a high of 61% of what they call "social potency" (a tendency toward leadership or dominance) is inherited, while "social closeness" (the need...
...this reason, the FAA and the industry have been working since the late 1950s to develop an onboard electronic system that will automatically alert pilots to the danger of a collision. Piedmont Airlines first tested a prototype in 1981 and 1982, and is currently evaluating a more advanced one. Next month United will also begin testing the device, known as TCAS II (for traffic alert and collision avoidance system); Northwest and Republic will quickly follow. By 1991, says FAA Administrator Donald Engen, all U.S. commercial planes will be required to carry the TCAS II; eventually, foreign aircraft entering U.S. airspace...
...perhaps the greatest danger before the reluctant leader is, finally, a private one. As she becomes ever more the President, she may become less and less the ordinary person -- attending PTA meetings, making pasta and praying with her children -- who captured her country in the first place. In growing more assertive, she may relinquish some of the gentleness that was her greatest strength. Ultimately, in mastering politics, she may have to let politics master...
...were unaware of these encroachments, the country would be in a great deal of danger. But we recognize what is happening, which may be why beneath the village of common thought lie disagreements on practically everything. We are beginning to resist our manipulators. That is the secret. In the sweet and deadly mass marketing of thought, we are quietly reclaiming our individual lives...