Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although he is disturbed about the clamor over his brother, the President is convinced the uproar will fade away. Last week he was mulling over the details of the convention - who should nominate him, who should give the seconding speeches. The idea that his nomination was in danger was far from his mind, aides asserted. They found this both reassuring and curious...
...year. The important 1.85 billion bu. winter-wheat crop had already matured before the weather turned bad. In addition, the U.S. holds such huge agricultural reserves, like the 1.7 billion bu. of corn and 901 million bu. of wheat from past good harvests, that there is at present no danger of shortages. The recent years of harvest feasts will permit U.S. agriculture as a whole to survive a relatively short period of drought and heat...
Again, in the classic movie manner, the characters are drawn from different backgrounds. But instead of using these conflicts for comic relief or color, Fuller mutes them to emphasize the commonality of their response to shared danger. The only fully developed figure is the wise and weary sergeant, who is so resonantly underplayed by Marvin that one scarcely notices that the young men who group themselves self-protectively around him are not more sharply particularized. But that comes to seem a prime virtue, for character is something that is formed by experience digested, and there is no time for that...
Industrial policy, though, contains a danger: far greater Government involvement in the economy. A key tenet for many supporters is that Government should foster those companies or industries that show the most potential. The idea is that Washington would pick out the most promising industrial sectors for the late '80s and '90s, such as microprocessors and telecommunications, and then, by means of tax policy and trade measures, encourage or cajole companies into those areas and away from declining industries like textiles...
Brazilian Catholicism once lived all too cozily with dictators. After the military coup in 1964, the hierarchy rendered public thanks to God for the soldiers who "delivered us from Communist danger." But for a decade and more. Brazil's bishops have been known for their willingness to stand up to the regime in the name of Christian justice. As one priest says, "The government calls a bishop a Communist, but when we see people being exploited, we have to say this is contrary to the Gospel." The toll has been high -since 1968, by church count, 122 bishops, priests...