Word: dangerous
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...Thus the danger of the root cause idea. It is offered as an analytic tool to understand an unpleasant reality: revolutionary violence. But whether intended or not, the logic of the root cause argument suggests one of two attitudes toward the unpleasantness: 1) despair, because root causes cannot be changed, or 2) moral ambivalence, because legitimacy necessarily accrues to those who fight with root cause on their side. One must not find oneself "on the wrong side of history...
...Aeromexico disaster was frighteningly similar to the collision of a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet and a small plane over San Diego on Sept. 25, 1978, which killed 144 people. The latest crash was a harrowing reminder that too little has been done in the intervening years to reduce the danger of small planes straying into the path of big passenger carriers at the nation's increasingly crowded airports. The problem is particularly acute in Southern California, which has the heaviest air traffic of any area in the world...
...danger is not solely the fault of the little planes: in the San Diego crash, federal investigators blamed the P.S.A. crew for failing to keep the smaller craft in view. Still, the scary mix of traffic over a center like Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) may be even more hazardous than it was eight years ago. Says one 747 captain: "You get below 10,000 ft., and it becomes almost suicidal not to devote a tremendous amount of attention outside the cockpit. I can't tell you how difficult it is to pick up a small airplane...
...called attention to what he termed a "danger" but did not propose any measures to counter...
McGeorge Bundy, former national security advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Harvard dean and professor, said that Reagan had a "real absence of serious knowledge" of nuclear danger...