Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case, inequality is a subject that must be addressed -- and not just by hoping that continued economic growth will automatically cure it. The danger is that growing disparities in wealth and living standards will undermine the sense of community and of financial optimism that have kept America from being riven by class resentments...
Rabin contends that other methods of curbing the protests have proved ineffective, including tear gas and the brutal beatings that prompted an international outcry earlier this year. Israeli troops are generally barred from using regular ammunition unless their lives are in immediate danger. Israel has tried dispersing protesters by firing rubber bullets, which bruise but rarely penetrate the skin. Aggressive Palestinians were undaunted. The new .556-mm plastic projectiles are supposedly less lethal than full metal jackets, but they are intended to cause injuries serious enough to put demonstrators out of action...
...overall is a small percentage of the population, but still it is disturbingly large. People in assembly line jobs at chemical plants and such are now needing extra training to deal with the math they need to just read the meter to see if the chemical is above the danger mark. There are too many of these people...
...commanding personality on either ticket, and the fuzziness of the national mood on both economic and foreign policy issues. In this environment, small tactics and forced errors can have a large impact. Experts in offensive gambits and defensive damage control are indispensable. With no margin for error, the danger of a gaffe, a mistake that will reveal too much, induces a crippling level of scripted caution. After the feel-good placebo of the Reagan years, neither Bush nor Dukakis dares to realistically ; address such pressing questions as the $2.8 trillion national debt. Devoid of content, the campaign almost inevitably becomes...
...matador is too proficient, the danger is forgotten, and the diver Greg Louganis has been a little like that. Tending beyond shy and sensitive to gentle and even delicate, he always seemed more of an artist than an athlete -- until last week. When his head banged the springboard, the Games shook. The world shivered. But a little embroidery work can improve a crown. Louganis came back to win the springboard, making a pedestal of the platform. As unafraid as ever of sentimentality, he was also as slyly pleased with his tonsure as a boy might be with a shiner...