Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found out afterwards that, despite the danger, no civilians were killed that day on the highway. Lucky for them. Lucky...
...make the transition from living under authority to becoming authority yourself without breaking loose for a while, as Joe Biden knew. And besides, danger...
...THIS summer, long after I should have, I joined up with a friend, John, in a Bonnie-Clyde duo of danger. And by the end of the summer, I could hold a lighter onto a fuse until the sparks flew, savor the smell of burnt-out shells and take cover from an oncoming patrol...
There is a danger that Aquino's civilian opponents may ally with factions of the armed forces in an attempt to seize power. Already Juan Ponce Enrile, the Senate minority leader and Aquino's chief rival on the right, has the tacit support of Honasan and his renegades. Property owners who oppose Aquino's land-reform proposals are said to be aligning themselves with the rebels. Vice President Laurel, says David Wurfel, a Philippines expert at Canada's University of Windsor, "appears to be running for election by the military. He wants to pose himself as the civilian protector...
...bank that had bought large quantities of Agrokomerc's promissory notes. Yugoslav officials hinted that still more resignations, and possibly more arrests, were to come. Despite some rumors to the contrary, there was no evidence that the government, which is run by Prime Minister Branko Mikulic, 59, was in danger of falling. But Yugoslav economists estimate that in 1986 alone thousands of enterprises besides Agrokomerc issued unbacked promissory notes and other flimsy financial instruments amounting to more than $9 billion. If they were all written off -- an unlikely prospect -- the enterprises and their creditors would go bankrupt, and the entire...