Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...states in the last three presidential elections. It must decide either to unabashedly pronounce its liberalism and appeal to voters' class interests, or it must choose to go with the tide and look to its Southern conservative members to bring it victory. In the first option, there is great danger. In the second, little inspiration...
Harvard, the 1987 Ivy champion, is 2-7 and in danger of finishing with its worst record since 1950, when the Crimson went...
...pounded the facade of its revered basilica. But Venetians have come to accept periodic flooding -- acqua alta (high water), they call it -- as a way of life, while city officials and the Italian government have been slow to realize that Venice's artistic and architectural treasures are in grave danger...
...couldn't. I didn't want to put them in danger. Second, I didn't want to unmask my presence. Who wouldn't talk? Especially the small kids, children who might call out, "Arafat is here! Arafat is here...
...more immediate danger is the debt being loaded on corporate America. This summer Revco, a chain of 2,000 drugstores based in Twinsburg, Ohio, defaulted on $700 million worth of bonds and went into bankruptcy proceedings just 19 months after going private in a leveraged buyout. Some experts fear that Revco will be one of many major failures resulting from the buyout binge. In the first half of this year, Standard & Poor's lowered the investment ratings for $216 billion worth of corporate securities, while raising the standing of only $130 billion in such debt. Warns economist Henry Kaufman...