Word: dangerous
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Even so, the F.C.S. is in no danger of going bankrupt. It has a $3 billion reserve fund to cover further losses in 1986. Moreover, last year it followed the example of Chrysler in seeking a federal bailout. In December Congress passed a law designed to keep the supply of farm credit flowing by clearing the way for the F.C.S. to borrow money from the Government if necessary...
Some Congressmen are not so sure. "Somewhere there may be a race of humans who will take $1,000 from perfect strangers and be unaffected by it," dryly notes Congressman Frank. Says Congressman Leon Panetta of California: "There's a danger that we're putting ourselves on the auction block every election. It's now tough to hear the voices of the citizens in your district. Sometimes the only things you can hear are the loud voices in three-piece suits carrying a PAC check...
...time since October 1978, when the American currency seemed so feeble that President Carter announced a dramatic rescue plan. Economists now wonder whether the current decline will end in a soft landing or a painful crash. Says Alan Greenspan, a New York City economic consultant: "There is an increasing danger now that the dollar's fall may prove to be as big a problem to the U.S. as its climb...
...Kovacs did, and wonderful characters like the Coneheads or Belushi's demented samurai may not have been any funnier, finally, than anyone on Your Show of Shows, but this book gives full measure to the size and the weight of S.N.L.'s substantial legacy. If the show was in danger of going down in history as a farm team for Hollywood, Hill and Weingrad have righted that misconception. S.N.L. was bodacious and irreverent, brazen enough to make everything else on the networks seem irrelevant. If Michaels' current edition of S.N.L. seems to be struggling hard with some heavy freight, Saturday...
...inspection team that went to the pad three times on launch morning--the last time 40 minutes before listoff--told the launch control center that ice would pose no danger. Two men on the team told the commission that post-launch films showed that to be the case...