Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Problem: the danger of another recession. Cause: the fear of a rise in interest rates, also a symptom of Big Government spending. Solution: supply- side economics, which means lower spending, lower taxes and an exuberant private sector that creates general prosperity...
...midweek the crew, wearing surgical masks to reduce the danger of possible infection, had managed by using vacuum cleaners to clear the air and get on with the major business of the 17th shuttle flight: conducting scientific experiments in the Spacelab. The two physicians aboard observed and tended to the rat and monkey menagerie, checking the animals' reaction to weightlessness and looking for clues to the space sickness that has plagued many astronauts during their first few days in space. Meanwhile, two physicists and a chemical engineer were busy on projects ranging from shooting pictures of the auroras and growing...
...decades ago, when America's inner cities were ravaged by riots, public interest was riveted on joblessness as a prime problem of the black community. But after the cities cooled down, attention waned, even though unemployment remains high. Since blacks have gained more political power in major cities, the danger posed by youth unemployment today does not seem to be mass violence. The peril is rather that thousands of young people are drifting into a netherworld of unemployment, welfare and crime from which they will not escape. Says Frank Slobig, director of the Roosevelt Centennial Youth Project, a Washington-based...
...said Linh, left in its wake "a million unemployed and a large contingent of prostitutes, drug addicts, vagabonds and hooligans." Ten years later, he claimed, "the reactionary and depraved neocolonialist culture, which has spoiled so much of our youth, remains our most acute and persistent danger...
Police supporters of the stun guns contend that they solve an old problem: how to avoid serious harm while capturing suspects who are a danger more to themselves than to others. The Houston officers who serve commitment warrants on the mentally disturbed use Tasers regularly and gratefully; injuries are down. The XR-5000, says Police Chief Conrad Teller of Southampton, N.Y., "sets them on their fanny nice and quiet. So far as we can see, it's the most humane way to do it." There are police complaints, however. The devices do not always work. Large and aggressive suspects sometimes...