Word: dangerous
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...voter attitudes about nuclear weapons in Europe. Of those surveyed, 55% say placing medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe without having first arrived at some agreement with the Soviet Union will increase the threat of nuclear war. Only 31% take the view that such a move will decrease the danger. According to the survey, 15% of the voters think there is a good chance, and 41% some chance, that nuclear war will break out in Europe within five years...
Kissinger on one occasion called Rogers "a positive danger to the peace of the world." On another, Ehrlichman claims, "Henry arrived at a meeting wearing that most solemn expression he reserved for discussions of his resignations. 'I shall return to Harvard,' he said." When Ehrlichman asked what was wrong, Kissinger is quoted as replying, "It's Rogers, of course. . .I've discovered he has been holding policy meetings on the Middle East over at the State Department. That I cannot tolerate...
...more unsettling danger is political terrorism, from both the Red Brigades of the left and the neo-Fascists of the right. Partly as a result of improving police intelligence, acts of violence tapered off this autumn, but there were still 753 incidents in the first ten months of the year. In a Shootout on a Rome street two weeks ago, two policemen were seriously wounded and a right-wing terrorist, Neo-Fascist Alessandro Alibrandi, was killed. Next day, in retaliation, a member of the national police was shot to death...
That may be more than his film finally deserves. The plot involves the slow-dawning discovery by a corporate executive's widow (Jane Fonda) and a financial wizard (Kris Kristofferson) that her husband was murdered. She is also in danger because her husband discovered how the oil interests were quietly draining resources away from Wall Street. Neither performer is particularly believable. The romance that develops between them is unfeeling, a sop to the audience's conventional expectations. Kristofferson, in particular, lacks the kind of ruthless intelligence one expects of Wall Street wolves; he seems the last person anyone...
Official drug rules, as specified in the Handbook for Students, state that the University will take "severe disciplinary action" in cases involving "the sale and traffic of drugs" or "danger to the Harvard community...