Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government-sponsored effort to rebuild schools, roads and medical centers. In Honduras, 100 U.S. advisers arrived last week to train Salvadoran troops, against a backdrop of new clashes on the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. "The Honduran question is getting some attention right now," said an Administration official, referring to the danger of war between Nicaragua and Honduras. "If you had 15,000 to 20,000 Cuban troops in Nicaragua, you might do something bold." That unsettling possibility certainly seemed remote enough, but late last week TIME learned of the recent arrival in Managua of Cuba's General Arnaldo Ochoa, Castro...
...implications for the future of mankind. Explained J. Robert Nelson, a professor of theology at Boston University and a signer of the document: "It may be possible to modify human life so much as to produce some theologically unacceptable notion of what human life is. We are in danger of treating human beings as animal stock rather than respecting their dignity...
...sharp rise in the polls, Thatcher momentarily, and perhaps for the first time in the campaign, seemed flustered. She warned of the possibility of electing a militant Labor government if too many people "thought it safe to give other parties a protest vote; that is the greater danger, make no mistake." Her remark seemed to lend credence to the Alliance's belief that an increasing number of Britons are as worried at the prospect of an overwhelming Thatcher victory as they are anxious about the chaos and leftward movement within the Labor Party...
...Technology threw acid in the face of his former girlfriend at her New York City residence. She sued the building owner and its security firm as well as her assailant's school, charging that M.I.T. psychiatrists who had been counseling the youth should have warned her of the danger. The jury's verdict: a total of $10.3 million in damages from all three sources...
...heavy rains and runoff in Utah turned a main street in Salt Lake City into a river, where enterprising citizens were catching fish. But mud slides in towns to the north pose a greater and continuing danger. "We can control the water, but the mud just goes where it wants to," explained Davis County Deputy Sheriff Harry Jones. "All we can do is try to anticipate where it is going and then get out of the way." Says another deputy, Pat Bird: "When it gets dark, nobody knows when it is coming or where it's coming from...