Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that shouldn't come as any surprise. Formed to co-opt student protest, the Faculty Council succeeded admirably, even increasing its authority after student concerns shifted from communal good to individual advancement. The danger for students is that someday, they may wake up to find all their power usurped. The greater danger, for administrators, is that they may arise to find a student body angered by forays like those of the Faculty Council--and prepared to re-enact the struggles of the late 1960s against forces that today seem eerily the same...
British politics as a whole was in a rich and rare state of disarray, only in part caused by the country's critical economic condition. Even as the Conservatives were digging in deeper on the right, the opposition Labor Party was in danger of being hijacked by its extreme left. Laborites were preparing for a bruising and perhaps fateful showdown this Sunday between the extremists and its old-line socialist faithful at the party conference in Brighton. Meanwhile the new Social Democratic Party, formed last March when a group of prominent Laborites broke away because of the party...
...Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government, the upsurge of a terrorist campaign directed against his nation's major ally was a diplomatic as well as a security danger. "These acts of violence are not only attacks against our American allies," said a government statement, "but just as much against our own security and freedom." At stake, it continued, was "the political value and reputation of the Federal Republic...
...Costa Rica's current troubles stem from its greatest as sets: its history as a free society, the development of a strong middle class and the creation of a governmental system that was deliberately decentralized to minimize the danger from coups and tyrannical regimes so prevalent in The region. The unfortunate consequence is that much of the public sector is outside the budgetary control of the executive branch, and both the legislative assembly and the supreme court can make important economic decisions without the approval of the President...
Earlier this month, faculty members at Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley introduced an ingenious corporate structure to regulate funding and profits with less danger of compromising research priorities. They created a nonprofit Center for Biotechnology Research and have already raised $2.4 million from six major corporations, including General Foods and Bendix, to fund research. If the research develops into fruitful ventures, profits will come under the jurisdiction of a separate company called Engenics. Since the center owns 30% equity in Engenics, those profits will enable the center to aid university research, no strings attached. Says Harvey Blanch...