Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since I am a student at the New York State Maritime College, it is almost inevitable that I will be in the midst of danger should a war break out. I feel the youth of this nation must defend the beliefs and security of America from Soviet aggression, but I do not feel women should be registered for the draft...
...election, which will determine the government of a future Zimbabwe, seemed in danger of disintegrating during the final days. The last full week of campaigning was marred by hundreds of scattered incidents, including the murder of a Roman Catholic priest and the abduction of four campaign workers for Joshua Nkomo's Patriotic Front Party by armed supporters of his erstwhile ally Robert Mugabe...
...Lookout Mountain Hill, a mudslide destroyed two houses and left the $1.25 million mansion of famed Divorce Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson tottering on the edge of a cliff and in danger of being washed away by the next storm. He was resigned to losing the house, which engineers doubted could be saved. He quipped, "I can live in my office, I can practice law in the courthouse and I don't see my wife much anyway...
...merits of tests, it is clear they are a tool used in the determination of opportunities. Many test advocates believe they help to break down old social barriers. Standardized tests, they say, move society toward a more meritocratic--as opposed to aristocratic--structure. An inherent and sometimes unrecognized danger of a meritocracy, however, is deciding who should decide which merits tests should measure and why those traits are the most important to society...
Probably the greatest danger of tests is that students tend to take their test scores as an indication of their intelligence or, worse yet, of their worth either as a student or as a human being. "ETS doesn't do enough to tell students that just because they got a poor SAT doesn't mean they are not talented," Solomon says...