Word: dangerous
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Still, Dallek's psychoanalytic approach is not without merit. In describing the Reagan symbolism, Dallek has hit upon the political nerve that makes him in some ways the Jonathan Schell of anti-Reaganism. Dallek, like the antinuke writer, is trying to assess the psychological impact of a horrible danger--in this case, Reagan's policies. Moreover, like Schell, Dallek describes in encyclopedic detail the features of his awful portrait of the Reagan phenomenon--a survey which reveals journalists and pundits sometimes shocked, sometimes disbelieving, and sometimes simply sardonically amused. The value of the Dallek survey is that, like Schell...
...danger of this complacent faith in the First Amendment became apparent last week in the aftermath of the lowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. The House Telecommunications Subcommittee has been holding hearings this year concerning the effect of TV projections on final vote tallies. The problem first received widespread attention after the 1980 Presidential contest, when President Jimmy Carter's early concession prompted as much as two per cent of the Western electorate to stay home, according to several studies. Although this probably didn't cause Carter's defeat, the results of state-level contests may have been decisively...
...California, meanwhile, authorities may be forced to release from custody a prisoner they regard as a danger to society. In 1978 Theodore Streleski, who had spent 19 years unsuccessfully seeking a mathematics Ph.D. at Stanford University, bludgeoned to death his academic adviser; Streleski reportedly told authorities that the killing was a "political" act to protest Stanford's handling of graduate students. A jury convicted him of second-degree murder and the use of a deadly weapon, which then carried a maximum sentence of eight years. In four weeks Streleski, 47, will have served his full term, with time...
...economy is going up, why do so many people feel so down about it? Why is the stock market sliding? Why is Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker warning of a "clear and present danger"? Why is Congress in an uproar over the President's economic policy? Why, after little more than a year of recovery, is the dread word recession even being occasionally heard from the President's economic advisers...
...most economists, the question is not whether a credit squeeze will occur, but how soon it will hit and how severe it will be. Says John Wilson, chief economist of San Francisco's Bank of America: "The danger is that if interest rates go up from their current high levels, it won't take much to squeeze out private spending and drive the U.S. back into a recession in 1985." A survey released last week by the National Association of Business Economists found that 69% of the 237 members polled were worried that the deficits could bring...