Word: dangerous
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...evident silliness of such messages aside, the danger of this school is that the too-systematic quest for an abstract goal can lead one from mere intellectual confusion to damnable, personal corruption. It is through such hunting, so often mistaken for the pursuit of happiness, that cultured or half religious people are transformed into mere snobs, feminists to shrews, athletes to books, and scientists to subversives. Lasch has metamorphosed from a would-be thinker into a rather loose writer...
There is a danger in asking children to accuse an adult of child molesting. Any smart youngster with a sadistic bent and practical mind will find the opportunity to blackmail a loving uncle by reporting an imagined abuse...
More than President Reagan or anyone else, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker caught the blame for the 1981-82 economic downturn. Now he is in danger of becoming the villain of Volcker Recession II. To prevent that unsavory sequel from materializing, the Federal Reserve Board has softened the tight-money stance it adopted earlier in the year and is letting interest rates fall. As a result, by last week a bidding contest was under way as banks rushed to drop the prime rate that they charge corporate borrowers. First New York's Citibank led a group of institutions that...
...Eggert for his newsletter Blue Chip Economic Indicators is that G.N.P. growth will pick back up to 3.3% in 1985. A growing number of analysts, however, are more skeptical. Says Sam Nakagama, a Wall Street economic consultant: "We are already in the midst of a mini-recession, and the danger is that the economy will slide into a full-fledged recession...
...issue of exceptions to the rule. One of the main reasons the Supreme Court overturned the Texas abortion law in Roe was that the exception for "saving the life of the mother" was unconstitutionally vague. If abortion is murder, what constitutes self-defense? Must the woman be in actual danger of dying if she carries the child to term, and how sure of this must her doctors be for an abortion to be legally permissible...