Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that of reconciliation--and that it was this spirit that prompted his wish "to put the past behind us." In the last two weeks, and particularly since last Thursday, the President has managed in fact to demonstrate that no sentiment could be more misguided. He has shown us the danger of such forgetting, for it is impossible to forget what one never knew, never understood, never grasped. He has only underscored the vital need for remembrance--accurate remembrance...
...international trade war. In stern tones, he told his audience that the U.S. Congress, incensed by Japan's $37 billion trade surplus with America, was on the verge of erecting steep new barriers to imports. Warning that the free-trade system and even peace and prosperity were in danger, Nakasone made an unprecedented appeal to the Japanese public. "I would like to ask you to buy more foreign goods," he said. "If each Japanese buys $100 in foreign goods, the increase in imports from that would amount to $12 billion, and foreign countries would be happy." To help make more...
Aside from the potential for Soviet agents to stir separatist sentiments in the Pakistan provinces of Baluchistan and Sind, the area of greatest danger is the North-West Frontier province, where 30,000 troops of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps form a thin defense line. For the moment, the prospect seems to be intensified bombing and occasional hot pursuit, though probably no major Soviet incursion into Pakistan. Says a Western diplomat based in Pakistan: "The Soviets will take every opportunity they can find --and there are many--for subversive operations. It has become a very dirty and deadly game...
...danger has been building ever since Sri Lanka won independence from Britain 37 years ago. As the Tamils see it, discrimination by the Sinhalese majority has gradually eroded their political rights...
There is, of course, the usual danger of getting nibbled to death by puns: "Haul up your socks and sintillate"; "Tending a cemetery is a grave responsibility." "It Midas well be spring," says a man fixing his car muffler. The book's conspicuous title can have a number of meanings, all socially redeemed because the line is Shakespeare's ("The bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon," Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 4). But there are no star-crossed lovers, only heavenly bodies tumbling from orbit to bounce in the bed of Eddie Teeters...