Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral question. We have lost sight of that, and that is the danger. Our world, and our attitude to that world, affords us few occasions to contemplate the morality of our conduct. Demands for sensitivity are opportunities more than accusations. They are a challenge. Otherwise the tables will remain separate, no matter how many other changes may come to pass. President...
Many political and military officials are worried the measures will serve mainly to brutalize Israel's soldiers. Warned Meir Pa'il, a retired colonel: "If we continue, the real danger is that our soldiers will be turned into beasts." That is already happening, said a lieutenant colonel in charge of % one West Bank military district: "The first time you see someone whose face is swollen after a beating by our soldiers, you are horrified. The second time is not so terrible anymore. The third time, you are indifferent...
...AIDS cases in the U.S. last year, only 4.9% were attributed to heterosexual transmission. And even that percentage may be overstating the danger: many of these victims, according to the CDC, were born in foreign countries where heterosexual AIDS may be linked to widespread venereal disease and other factors like malnutrition. Concludes Eve Nichols of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences: "Researchers do not expect to see an explosion of cases among non-drug-abusing heterosexuals in the U.S." In the forthcoming new edition of her book Mobilizing Against Aids, Nichols says that heterosexuals can have...
...warn you now, we are in danger of losing the abortion law," said Baird, who came with about 20 members of the Boston-based Pro-Choice Defense League...
...Shamir demands. Shamir is now suggesting he might countenance U.N. sponsorship to launch peace talks, but he remains firmly opposed to any more substantive international participation. In a separate interview in Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens explained why. At an international conference, he said, "there's the danger of having pressure applied to you, not by the party with whom you have to make peace but by other parties who may have other interests...