Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jury's decision in a capital case is indeed an "awesome responsibility," wrote Justice Thurgood Marshall for the majority, and no prosecutor has the right to denigrate it. Appellate courts, he added, rarely second-guess a jury's sentence, and for prosecutors to suggest otherwise poses "an intolerable danger that the jury will in fact choose to minimize the importance of its role...
...concept of the security of the Soviet state is sacrosanct in a way roughly comparable to the concept of personal freedom in the West. In Russian, security is bezopasnost -- the B in KGB. The word literally means "the absence of danger." As a profession, security means vigorously identifying and, whenever possible, eliminating danger...
...espionage and treason laws to handle such situations. But I also believe that journalists, academics, public servants and whistle blowers have just as much right to free speech as do the high officials who call reporters into their offices and leak classified information in support of Administration policy. The danger isn't just in censorship. It's in the threat of censorship. Those in power are not the ones who will be prosecuted under an official secrets act. The defendants will be those who have challenged them to explain themselves, to reconsider their policies, and to tell the truth...
Vizinczey does not bother to weave much suspense about this outcome; the question is not whether Mark will find the treasure but how. He seems in danger of being distracted by Marianne Hardwick, a beautiful woman who lives on the island with her two young sons while her husband runs his huge chemical company and philanders back home in Chicago. Their love affair is passionate and brief; she sends him packing when he will not abandon risky underwater explorations and his dream of wealth. But spies employed by Marianne's husband have caught her and Mark on film in compromising...
...claims to be a tax consultant, she is knowledgeable about restaurants, cars and foreign languages. It is just possible to believe there may be a soft spot in this upwardly mobile heart for a brief enlivening encounter with someone like Charley -- crude but sweet, with an aura of danger about...