Word: dangerous
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...cooperative efforts tend to go against the grain in the U.S., where entrepreneurs often view their colleagues as blood rivals. "America has been wickedly competitive within itself," observes Robert Noyce, a co-inventor of the integrated circuit and near legendary figure from Silicon Valley who now heads Sematech. The danger is that by focusing too much on short-term competitive standings, U.S. industry will spend too little time preparing for the future. The most complex technologies require long-term planning and investments, and the payoffs, while potentially enormous, may be long delayed. But U.S. business leaders are showing signs that...
Although unwilling to divulge secret sources, U.S. officials confirmed that former workers in the plant had provided sensitive details. At first only the British Foreign Office seemed to be convinced of the danger. It conducted its own investigation of the complex and agreed with the U.S. findings. Later the French, Canadians and Egyptians advised the U.S. that they too were persuaded. But the Soviets and some U.S. allies claimed that the evidence was inconclusive...
MEDICINE: Danger zones lure selfless doctors and nurses...
...under the influence of suspected Communists. The surveillance yielded plenty about King's extramarital affairs, which Hoover circulated among high government officials and journalists. In his important study of the civil rights movement, Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch writes that by 1963 Hoover was so convinced King was a danger to America that the bureau no longer alerted him to death threats. In late 1964 FBI agents mailed a threatening letter and tape recording of King's sexual escapades to his wife, apparently in hopes that the revelation would drive him to suicide...
...year. The median prediction is for a decline from the current level of 125 yen to about 121. Estimates for the end of 1989 range from Kudlow's prediction of a robust 142-yen dollar to Wilson's forecast of a weakling 110-yen version. Says Wilson: "The biggest danger I see for the economy next year is a free-falling dollar...