Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later sent an armored car to pick him up. "I was lucky I had a place to escape to," said Diederich, a Miami resident who was born in Haiti and is the son of TIME Reporter Bernard Diederich. "Those people took me into their homes when I was in danger, yet I cannot take them into mine now that theirs is in danger. In Haiti today, life has no value, especially for the ordinary folk. The future holds a lot of pain and suffering for a people who want only to live their lives in peace...
...Summitry serves to lower the world's blood pressure. The two most powerful leaders on the planet smile at each other; somehow it seems that the rumbling forces of history, filled with clashing values and national interests, might thus be tamed. And like most conceits, there is some danger: neither the President nor the public should be lulled into thinking that a personal rapport between leaders can smile away underlying conflicts that for 40 years have divided East from West...
HAUPTMAN moves Gillette along quickly and serves up a lot of good one-liners ("I've got nothing against [marriage], except that it's a life without hope"). The goings-on become hilarious in the second act, when the expense and danger from next-door roughnecks push the duo out of their motel and onto the open prairie. There they set up house, a hibachi and Mickey's Roy Orbison records, and they look for romance outside the local jail, waiting for the first newly sprung women--two gold-hearted hookers named Brenda (Dawn Couch) and Cathy (Pamela Gien...
...American public will never know if food additives like the sugar-substitute NutraSweet pose a health threat to consumers because government tests neglect areas of potential danger, said an expert on technology policy from MIT last night...
...believe they may contain microscopic holes through which the AIDS virus can be transmitted. The point is very well summed up by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop: "If you use a condom for protection against AIDS the way you use them for birth control then you are in danger...