Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials reported at week's end that the DOE's nuclear weapons plant at Fernald, Ohio, had released thousands of tons of radioactive uranium waste over the past few decades into the atmosphere and the regional water supply. Plant workers and thousands of surrounding residents have been exposed to danger...
Harvard's intramural tackle football league has been trimmed from six teams to four this year. But the director of intramural athletics and several students who participate in the program say that the program is not in danger of folding...
Many of the people the group considered were simply not willing to be the first Black candidate for president." The risks inherent in a Black mounting a serious campaign for president are significant," he says. "They range all the way from the obvious physical danger--the danger of assassination--to the fact that this is not the kind of thing that the political establishment of this country really welcomes with open arms. So people who felt they had a stake, for example, in the Democratic party saw this--the idea of a Black running or even supporting a Black...
...Seoul, Americans focused their attention on the efforts by U.S. Olympians to outpace rival athletes from other nations. But there is another form of international competition that the U.S. is unquestionably losing, and it is no game. America, once the perennial champion of world trade, now seems in danger of dropping out of contention. In one industry after another, American companies have lost their lead to foreign competitors that are more innovative, efficient and responsive to the needs of consumers...
Even the element of danger present in visiting the Zone is a disappointment. A few dangerous-looking types lurk in corners. Several drunks stagger out of bars and clumsily attempt to hurl punches at each other. Open-eyed pimps stand on the corner watching their prostitues...