Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sullivan added that the building would likely be used for testing nerve and blister agents, which he called "a clear and present danger" to the community...
...Texas Democrat Wright Patman, then chairman of the House Banking Committee, antagonized financiers when he said, "I think we should have more bank failures. The record of the last several years of almost no failures is to me a danger signal that we have gone too far in the direction of bank safety." Big-city bankers bitterly opposed Patman's novel ideas for allowing more competition...
...removal of the U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles that had just been installed in Western Europe a precondition of returning to the INF talks and an incentive for resuming START. Since the U.S. could never agree to such a demand, the two sets of negotiations seemed in danger of remaining in limbo. Other than noting the face-saving benefits of the umbrella format, the Administration has said little about how such wide-ranging talks would be organized and carried...
...encounters with melons, rugs, mustaches and ruins, Philip Glazebrook asks his big question: "What was the impulse which drove middle-class Victorians to leave the country they loved so chauvinistically, and the company of the race they considered God's last word in breeding, to travel in discomfort, danger, illness, filth and misery among Asiatics whose morals and habits they despised...
...over the past 30-odd years there have never been so many shark assaults off the U.S. in such quick succession. Between 1950 and 1955, sharks attacked a total of three people in the U.S. Pacific; in the past four years that number has quadrupled. The center of the danger area runs from Monterey Bay to Point Reyes, Calif. This 90mile stretch of coastline together with the Farallon Islands to the west forms a perilous wedge now called the Red Triangle. John McCosker, director of the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, says, "It may be the shark-attack capital...