Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rived the once solid unity of Senate Republicans and threatened to destroy the budget process that provides Congress with its chief source of fiscal discipline. As it became apparent that the Administration and Congress were unable, or unwilling, to deal with the budget, there was renewed concern about the danger that this presented for the still tentative recovery...
...shame. A leader of the young and an activist for peaceful change, Lowenstein was rarely out of the headlines during the 60s and 70s for his untiring captaincy of liberal causes. In 1980, at 51 he was the victim of an assassin's bullet. But today Lowenstein is in danger of becoming an unsung hero--one of the many who touched the pages of history but, holding no major office, became, little more than footnotes in political textbooks. Allard Lowenstein should not be relegated to a footnote--especially not by the young people to whom he would have appealed...
...Chile's largest union, the 27,000-member National Conference of Copper Workers, will mark its discontent with an illegal 24-hour national strike. With unprecedented boldness, the union denounced the government's "weapons of fear and repression." Said President Rodolfo Seguel: "We are heading toward a dangerous point where the Chilean worker will not see any worse alternative to his present situation." Even the general's supporters fear that he has no answer. Says a former minister: "The country is in greater danger than when the Marxists were in power...
...meaning of this moment is not about weapons systems, megatonnage or complicated treaties. [It] resides in the vivid awareness people have of the danger of our times and the public determination that governments be challenged to take decisive steps against the nuclear threat." So declared Joseph Cardinal Bernardin as 262 Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. last week met in Bernardin's Chicago to debate a 44,000-word pastoral letter on the morality of nuclear arms policy. After two days of discussion, the bishops endorsed by a large margin (238 to 9) a sweeping and, to critics...
...Britain's Granada Television, in a program showing exclusively in the U.S. through mid-June at the Museum of Broadcasting in Manhattan-is less a professional challenge than an act of reckless physical courage. This recklessness has become something of a habit with Olivier. A sense of danger, athletic as well as emotive, has often been at the heart of his Shakespearean performances. His Romeo (1935) clambered up to his fair lady's balcony in record time; his Hamlet (1947) leaped from a 14-ft. balcony to wrestle with Laertes; his Coriolanus (1959) executed a horrendous, death-daring...