Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heywood, said last week his proposal would save substantially on Brown's fuel costs by cutting heating during early winter. After spring vacation, when there is no longer a danger of freezing, the university could cut off all heat and electricity from some non-essential buildings, he added...
...intelligence community will seize the recent resurgence of military fervor to wriggle out of unwelcome Congressional and public restraints. Carter paints the effort to clothe intelligence agencies in responsibility as a straitjacket that will hamper our intrepid intelligence-gatherers from carrying out their duties in an era of deepening danger to American security. The president is now pushing not just to limit Congressional oversight of intelligence activities but to legalize and codify a whole range of "acceptable" practices that threaten both domestic civil rights and foreign sovereignty...
Carter still seems a little like Huck Finn in the White House, not all that certain about the work he is doing. There remains in this nation, and certainly there was in the Congress the other night, the sense that danger is not really danger, that the threat to us is not after all a real threat, that the war we talk about is not really going to be a war. This may be the ultimate corruption caused by the television tube, which brings us the daily alarms but can also be snapped off, or the channel can be changed...
Maybe it is that way when true danger at last manifests itself. Free people are often the last to admit and believe that catastrophe can strike. And then when they do believe trouble is on them, they do not want to talk about their fears until they have...
Forebodings of danger have not cramped Nkomo's electioneering style While his ally turned rival Mugabe was sulking in Mozambique, Nkomo held huge rallies for blacks in Salisbury and Bulawayo under the Patriotic Front banner, which he has cleverly appropriated to his own party. He also wooed groups of white businessmen, industrialists and farmers. Nkomo's basic campaign message: reconciliation, political moderation and racial harmony. In contrast to much of his previous rhetoric from exile in Zambia, his official platform makes no mention of socialism or large-scale nationalizations...