Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Traditional risk assessment weighs the magnitude of the danger against the probability it will occur. The chance of dying from a cyanide-laced piece of fruit was infinitesimally small compared to the possibility of being run over by the proverbial bus on the way to the supermarket. But rather than issue a warning to examine fruit carefully, the Food and Drug Administration impounded ! 2 million crates of fruit at airports and docks in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami -- a still life of waste -- and advised consumers not to eat any Chilean fruit, which includes most of the peaches, blueberries, blackberries...
...long is the reach of foreign terrorists? For years the FBI as well as private U.S. experts has offered a soothing answer: while Americans abroad are vulnerable, there is little danger at home. But last week Oliver Revell, the FBI's second ranking official, told a congressional subcommittee that a "hard core" of 300 among the more than 10,000 Iranians who have come to the U.S. as students bear careful watching. Some, he said, are members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard whose real interests are far from academic...
...never disloyal to their country, he says. His sensitivity to Alfred and Sylvia (both still living) means that he never quite penetrates the deepest questions: Exactly why did people like them join the Communist Party? Just what did they do at their cell meetings? Was there in fact some danger in having people working for the Government whose loyalty was also to the Communist Party? And, on a more personal level, does he feel he has betrayed the father he clearly loves very deeply...
...campaign against the bawdy Fox network sitcom Married . . . With Children. Responding to her complaints, several major advertisers, including Kimberly- Clark and Procter & Gamble, said they would no longer run ads on the show because of its "offensive" content. The sitcom -- Fox's highest-rated show -- is in no mortal danger: ad time is sold out for the season, Fox officials say, and only one company, Tambrands, actually canceled a scheduled commercial because of Rakolta's complaints...
...military's growing reliance on linked computer networks for battle management and command and control increases the danger of catastrophic sabotage by a hostile insider. That's why some U.S. security officials lie awake at night imagining scenarios like these...