Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main long-term danger to the U.S. is increased reliance on foreign oil. Many business leaders and politicians have taken note that ultralow oil prices are threatening to stunt domestic production. Gerald Greenwald, vice chairman of Chrysler, sees the peril of another oil shock. Says he: "We've been burned twice before, and we see the elements of No. 3 taking shape...
Israel's state airline, El Al, which sets the world standard for security, relies mainly on people, rather than machines, to spot danger. El Al's thoroughness sometimes infuriates passengers, who must endure a check-in ritual that includes hand searches of carry-on luggage, minute scrutiny of passports and rigorous quizzing of passengers about the contents of their luggage. Result: El Al can boast that none of its planes has been hijacked since...
...REAL THING is a play about people who do everything to avoid reality. The characters, a group of playwrights and actors, hide behind their words and lines in a collective cerebral effort to avoid that most precarious of danger zones, the human heart. A popular offering for perennially over-intellectualized Harvard audiences, this Tom Stoppard play, like a Woody Allen film, could be about what happens to Harvard students when they grow...
Margarita, a 24-year old refugee camp worker, fled El Salvador when she felt her life was in danger. "To go in and out of the refugee camps is to become a sure target of the security forces or of the death squads," the native of San Jose de la Montana told local reporters last fall. After a visit with Cambridge public officials, Margarita joined Saul, Mario, and 14 other refugees in a 30-city tour of New England--a symbolic journey to protest this nation's immigration policies toward Central American aliens...
...article did manage to deplore the actions of those protesters who sought to impose their personal views on the entire Harvard community by interfering with the presentation of Jorge Rosales of the Nicaraguan FDN (Contras), calling them "totalitarian," and rightfully so. Unfortunately this one creditable statement was in danger of being lost in a morass of obfuscation and extraneous debate. Most of the article deals with a rather torturous examination of whether the Contras as "murderers" ("which [Mr. Katz] tend[s] to agree is the case") should be allowed to speak. The very title of the piece, "Not So Simple...