Word: dangerous
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...historian on leave from Harvard University, who has served since the Inauguration as the chief expert on Soviet affairs for the National Security Council staff. Before joining the Government, he was an outspoken, highly controversial critic of détente and a leader of the Committee on the Present Danger, a private lobbying group that campaigned against SALT II and in favor of larger defense budgets. Partly because of his reputation for vociferous anti-Sovietism, and partly because the NSC has been trying to avoid publicity, Pipes until now was under orders to keep his strong views...
...permit accurate verification of earlier nuclear weapons treaties. Those who demonstrated feel that only by demonstrating resolve never to be overtaken by the Soviet Union in nuclear arms will the West ever convince the Soviets to participate in meaningful arms negotiations. The current surge of concern over the danger of nuclear war is laudable, but the facile, emotionally based recommendations it has generated would only increase the chances of nuclear cataclysm should they be put into practice. Mark A. Sauter...
...Review's decision to couch its new plan in abstractions, then, led to its success. It's much easier to make abstract decisions without specific costs than to make concrete decisions with concrete costs. The danger is that under conservative leadership, the Review's abstractions could prove meaningless wording changes...
...concerned by the substantial Nicaraguan arms buildup and with reported human rights violations against the rightist opposition and the Miskito Indians. Yet Washington has failed to substantiate its accusations. Nor has the State Department made any attempt to view the world through Nicaraguan eyes. Seen from Managua, the present danger is hardly the same one perceived by our foreign policy leaders...
Referring to the development of a new technology allowing doctors to product according the which tumors will spread, the five doctors recommended less extensive surgery to remove melanoma tumors. An eight study at MGH after showed that the limited surgery does not increase the danger of the cancer specialist...