Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only hope for Holmes, then, is an early knock out. That's just what he and many experts predict. But Ali has been hit by far harder punchers than Holmes--Frazier, Liston, Foreman, Shavers--and while he's been down, he's never been in danger of being knocked out. I don't think he can be knocked out--not even at 38. Ali's greatest strength is his ability to take a punch; Holmes's blows will pose no problem...
There is always the danger that the takeover may produce a split in the military leadership and thus undermine the new-found stability. So far, the generals have had trouble putting together a civilian Cabinet. Some politicians who were approached were said to be reluctant to join the government at a time when more than 50 members of parliament were being held in "protective custody." Late last week the military chose one of its own to be the new Prime Minister. He is Bülent Ulusu, 57, a former admiral and retired chief of the Turkish navy. Ulusu...
...whether they will behave like British unions, which are interested only in their own demands, regardless of the cost to the nation, or whether they will, like West German unions, moderate their demands so as not to harm the overall economy." Poles at large were generally aware of that danger. The country's economy, as Communist Party Official Mieczyslaw Rakowski describes it, "already resembles a punching bag hanging from a thin thread...
...recently, only Barbara Walters had that power, but now with psychiatrists at the helm, all sins become venial. One would expect a psychiatrist Governor to exercise his right of pardoning condemned prisoners, of course, and that would be most pleasing to opponents of capital punishment. Only one area of danger exists, and that is in the traditional circumstance of a Governor's phoning the prison at the last minute to cancel the execution...
...Marcos stem the ever-swelling tide of revolution in a country that, as he says, "has been under martial law for far too long." Although he bounds about the placid office in Coolidge Hall with energy remarkable for someone just weeks removed from major coronary surgery, he knows the danger to his health and to his life if he returns. He also realizes he cannot stay away too long. "I don't want to regret ten years from now--when it's too late--that I decided to play it safe," he says...