Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tanks of the early Pintos were likely to rupture in rear-end crashes, but after a cost-benefit analysis, had decided against installing a $6.65 part that would have helped protect the tanks. Cosentino maintained that Ford then did not try hard enough to warn Pinto owners about the danger. He produced eyewitnesses who testified that the girls' Pinto had been moving at 15 to 35 m.p.h. when struck, meaning that the impact speed was equal to no more than 35 m.p.h. At that speed, Cosentino maintained, a fuel tank should not rupture...
...blubbery bulk. But while Cleveland hailed from New Jersey, the manatee is a native of warmer climes: the rivers of West Africa, the Amazon basin, the shores of the Caribbean, and the coasts of Florida. Now the gentle and once plentiful creature is in serious danger of extinction. In Africa and South America, tribesmen have hunted it for its delectable meat-not unlike veal-as well as its fat and oil, leathery skin and ivory-like bone. In Florida, only some 1,000 remain, and the death rate appears to be exceeding the birth rate...
Cambridge currently receives $2,546,560 in federal revenue sharing, Malone said. The city gets an additional $14,221,000 from the state, which Malone said is in danger of being...
...stated to be one of the most common sexual fantasies of American women-the gentle rape [Feb. 18]. I wish you had at least added that a woman daydreaming of such a forced sex act is in control of her fantasy, and therefore suffers no threat of actual danger. Not so in real life, no matter how "gentle" the rapist...
...warned Italy's Roberto Ducci last month, retiring as Rome's Ambassador to London after 42 years in his country's foreign service. Indeed, seldom before in modern history has diplomacy been so dangerous, or so seemingly discredited, a calling. The clear and ugly danger is represented by terrorists who look on embassies and diplomatic missions as ripe, highly visible targets of opportunity, and their occupants as valuable hostages. At the same time, the traditional role of the diplomat, as an international negotiator, has been to some degree rendered obsolete in an age of Instant communications, when heads of state...