Word: dangerous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though some legislators today might be reluctant to make such a promise, no one in Congress is seriously proposing anything as drastic as Smoot-Hawley. Still, the pro-tariff mania that swept Washington 55 years ago remains a danger. "What we are afraid of," says S. Bruce Smart, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, "is that people are so emotional that they will do something that they know is foolish, just to do something...
...argument that most impresses legislators is the danger of foreign retaliation against U.S. exports, since that is an identifiable threat to specific people, like farmers, in their states and districts. That is not going to stop the protectionist drive. The urge on Capitol Hill to do something, anything, about trade is overwhelming. But there is a trend away from bills aimed against specific products or countries, and increasing talk about writing "generic" legislation...
...bars frequented by leather and spike clad homosexual bikers. But this is not the kind of thing New York Air tells the folks from Des Moines about. As the camera pans across the city streets slicked down a la Miami Vice, we find ourselves inexplicably drawn to the omnipresent danger and bizarreness that fills the air like sour sushi. But, as Paul discovers for himself, the quiet life in a yuppified downtown appartment has a certain appeal...
...This is my first," said a Californian, sipping Bud and surveying the twisted trees bending in the wind. "Why sit indoors? None of the soaps are on TV. Why watch the news when you can see the hurricane with your own eyes?" Danger? "Who cares about flying roofs and airborne automobiles," said the student, clad in his finest hurricane garb: shorts, a t-shirt and Ray-Bans. "I've got eyes, I can duck." Nice shades...
...Wasco County. However, many of the transients later departed. Sheela's latest plan, the bhagwan said, was to build a housing complex for AIDS victims in Rajneesh. His reaction was less than charitable: "I said this is not right. You would be putting the whole of Oregon in danger. I had to stop it." After Sheela and her followers fled, said the guru, "sannyasins started coming up and informed me of things about these people who had done all kinds of criminal acts...