Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year or more. Now this program, often advertised by the Kremlin as a steppingstone to the stars, has suffered a serious setback. Last week Soviet officials acknowledged that the latest orbital station, Salyut 7, had experienced problems, though they vigorously denied British reports that the two cosmonauts were in danger of being marooned in space...
...construction problems were discovered almost by accident. Private Detective Thomas Applegate, 32, hired by Cincinnati Gas in 1979, concluded that safety-related building lapses posed a greater danger to the plant than the doctored timecards he had been directed to investigate. The utility ignored Applegate's allegations and fired...
...with his longtime screenwriter, Jean-Claude Carrière) is thus in part the testament of an old man passing ironic judgment on a century that finally learned to accommodate him. If the book offers any shocks, they are of the boomerang variety: the iconoclast at twilight is in danger of becoming a moralist. He condemns "the proliferation of gutter words" in modern literature; he criticizes the excesses of his anarchist comrades in the Spanish Civil War; he expresses relief in the waning of his sexual desire ("It's as if I've finally been relieved...
What if our government were privy to information that indicated the students in Grenada were in real danger? The majority opinion condemns too broadly the use of American force to safeguard American lives in any situation short of actual kidnapping or murder...
...government is wrongly denying reporters free access to the island, and because of this we do not yet have the information necessary to condemn or condone the Administration's actions. We cannot say definitively that U.S. citizens were free of danger, simply because no hostages had yet been taken. In fact, some reports have indicated that the medical students were indeed in danger before the U.S. forces arrived. It was clear in 1979 that anti-American sentiment in Iran could threaten U.S. lives there, but the U.S. government took no steps to safeguard them until it was too late...