Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...circumstance that lies ahead is the Reagan Administration's decision to sell five AW ACS radar intelligence-gathering aircraft and other advanced air weaponry to Saudi Arabia. Begin stated his objections to the sale in detail to Reagan, arguing that the sale posed a clear "danger" to Israel. "We are not frightened by AWACS," Begin told Reagan, "but we are worried about them." Still, he followed the advice of aides not to raise a public ruckus in the U.S. about the sale, since an all-out fight would look bad if Congress does not act to block the deal...
Many Egyptian officials believe that the sort of militant Islam now enjoying a renaissance is not sufficiently attractive to the majority of Egyptians to pose a danger to Sadat's rule. But observers caution that should the religious militants ever link up with secular dissidents, they could prove to be a potent challenge indeed to the President...
...familiar company in danger is Pan American World Airways, which has lost $217.6 million in the first half of this year. In a desperate attempt to raise cash, the company last year sold...
...which amphetamines are sold. Analysis showed, however, that they were not amphetamines at all but a combination of substances commonly found in the cold remedies, diet and keep-awake pills sold over the counter in drugstores. The dead girl was a victim of the nation's latest drug danger: the "lookalike" pill...
Though they are made to mimic the appearance of the more expensive amphetamines, look-alike drugs contain no federally controlled substances (i.e., with a high potential of dangerous abuse). Their primary ingredients are caffeine, a stimulant; ephedrine, a vascular constrictor; and phenylpropanolamine (PPA), a chemical cousin of amphetamines. The danger lies not in the kinds of chemicals they contain but in the amount. Whereas the average diet-aid capsule may contain about 50 mg of PPA and between 100 mg and 200 mg of caffeine, a look-alike capsule can carry...