Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME: "You were quoted as having said that you had read Norman Podhoretz's The Present Danger and thought it was a very important book. Is that accurate? Did you admire that book when it came...
...billion from the importing countries next year, and every Western nation seems determined to reduce its deficit in order to keep its currency strong. As governments slow their economies by escalating interest rates, they also choke off the capital investment that is vital for renewed growth. An additional danger is that, as unemployment rises, workers will demand protection from imports. New barriers to world trade would ensure sluggish growth. European industrialists have already been lobbying governments to limit the imports of American textiles and Japanese cars...
Diamond is unique among pop stars in that he projects not a scintilla of sexual danger; but here he is required only to be a dutiful son, husband (twice), father and pop idol. With the help of Lucie Arnaz as Neil's girlfriend, and Laurence Olivier (who really must stop play ing Jews and Nazis) as his father, the movie plods along earnestly, endlessly - schmaltz in three-quarter time. Yet in its elephantine way, The Jazz Singer may attract much of the Rocky crowd, and for the same reasons. It recalls simpler days and sweeter movies; it does...
...symbolized the futile workers' uprisings against Poland's governments in 1956, 1970 and 1976. To others, it recalled specifically the three workers gunned down there early one December morning in 1970. But most of all, last week's ceremonies represented the revolution of the moment: a danger-laden struggle between Poland's workers and their Communist masters...
...that control-room personnel are not always prepared to handle an emergency. In the past year the nuclear industry and the Government spent millions of dollars to improve control-room warning systems and to upgrade training programs. Even among nuclear proponents, though, there is still some concern about the danger of human error...