Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Postel said only the fifth floor infirmary was not evacuated, adding that patients followed a special "disaster evacuation" procedure. Officials moved all in-patients to an enclosed corridor on the fifth floor to shield them from possible flying glass, that Postel called the main danger of an explosion...
Saying he fears a reduction in federal money for student financial aid, Rosovsky said, "If the present situation continues, there is a real danger to our policy right...
...professors came to regard their research as a trade secret. Said Microbiologist Jonathan Beckwith: "I already know of several other universities where people within the same department won't communicate with one another because they are directors of competing companies outside the university." Even more disturbing was the danger that grants of promotion or time off for company-connected professors might be seen by colleagues as commercial favoritism. The potential for conflict of interest was obvious this month as the University of California went to court to protest that cell lines from its labs, also capable of creating interferon...
...position of Solidarity militants, who have been vying with a moderate faction for control of the union, was enhanced by last week's victory. No doubt the militants will keep urging their colleagues to take uncompromising positions in upcoming negotiations over wages and access to the press. The danger is that they will push their advantage too far, with the result that hard-liners will once again take over the Communist Party. Party moderates hope to appease the unions and please Moscow, while also looking to the West for financial help. Unhappily, that is rather like a juggler tossing...
...federal district and circuit court judges (of more than 600) stepped out of their robes, compared with eight in the '60s and seven in the decade before that. The trend has brought warnings from the legal establishment that the nation's treasured federal bench is in danger of losing its luster. Observers fret not only about the increased number of departures but also about the erosion of morale among those who remain. An equally distressing, although incalculable effect is the possible decrease of top candidates for judicial openings...