Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Survival Game does not sound sick or macho-childish to me. Pitting man against man in a life-or-death situation is the ultimate form of danger and the game provides a chance to act out harmlessly a fantasy for people who find danger exhilarating...
While Aikman witnessed the assault from Israeli lines, TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart discovered what it was like to be the target of concentrated firepower from land, sea and air. He was often less than 2½ miles away from Aikman, and constantly in mortal danger. Stewart's report...
...That competition for limited available capital is likely to keep interest rates high. The latest economic indicators, which for two straight months had pointed toward a possible recovery, turned ominously flat. Worse yet, the painfully constructed underpinnings of Ronald Reagan's fragile 1983 bipartisan budget deal were in danger of falling to the wrecker's ball. The bickering between congressional Democrats and Republicans and between leaders of both parties and the President threatened to defeat a much needed tax increase and permit passage of budget-breaking bills. If those two events occurred, the whole budget process could come...
...Iraq would reduce oil shipments, thus drying up the remains of the petroglut and pushing prices higher. Most experts, though, felt that the war is unlikely to trigger an immediate crisis because the global economic slump continues to hold down energy use. But the energy situation will again become dangerous once world economies start growing. Writes Yergin: "The more likely flash point occurs when accidents interact with a market in which demand is rising, as was discovered in 1973 and 1979. Thus, the world enters the danger zone when economic activity and energy demands are on the upswing...
...Mortal danger remains a remote but real possibility. Wilkinson collars a drunk driver of awesome size and manages to coax him to jail. Later that night, the prisoner wakes up in his cell and rips the toilet out of the wall with his bare hands. At his trial, the man explains what happened: "A little energized particle broke off a star in a galaxy somewhere far away and shot down and came through the open window, and when it hit the toilet, BOOM, the whole thing blew up. I could have been killed...