Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Warming to his theme of "the mutual danger of protectionism," he noted that U.S.-Canada trade last year totaled nearly $150 billion, the largest volume between any two nations in the world. One of three Canadian jobs depends on exports, he noted, and the U.S. buys three-quarters of his country's exports. "The imperative for Canada is not just more multilateral arrangements," said Mulroney, "but stability in our bilateral trade relationship with the U.S. We want more secure access to (the U.S.) market, while recognizing that the removal of barriers opens trade in both directions...
NASA scientists insist that given the briefness and the danger of the flybys, Astro-1 could actually end up gleaning more information about Halley's than the probes do. "Our mission may not be as dramatic," says Knox Long, a Johns Hopkins University scientist on the Astro project, "but we're getting the most bang for the buck...
Umbrella abuse is just another example of the pernicious abuse of individual freedoms in our society. Like those who carry handguns or operate automobiles, umbrella users pose a serious danger to the general public. That they are allowed wantonly to menace unarmed rainy-weather walkers is a disgrace in a community such as Cambridge--one at once beset by wet weather and committed to protecting the welfare of its citizens...
...biggest danger is not that the Green can ambush the Crimson, but rather that the lowly squad can knock Harvard out of the rhythm it's found of late...
Living at Risk is sensitively photographed, a moving series of vignettes subtly linked by voice-over narrations by various Barrios family members. At several points in the hour-long film, the English narrator informs us that the filmmakers are stalking highly dangerous territory, that guerrilla attacks have recently occurred along the stretch of road that Miguel Barrios (and presumably the American filmmakers) drive on. Physical danger, the oppression of a country being squeezed to its weakest point, make Living at Risk...