Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the new ideas that teachers took away from Bread Loaf seemed in danger of withering back home, remembers Cubeta. "We needed to devise a way for them to go back with support for their projects and for each other." One result was an idea called BreadNet: by setting up a network of word processors, Bread Loaf-trained teachers could instantaneously connect their classrooms. Last year the project lifted off when a charitable trust donated $1.5 million for that and other programs...
...danger from AIDS: the Gulag. A Soviet decree issued last week specifies prison sentences of up to eight years for spreading the disease and five years for exposing another person to the virus, even if the infection is not passed on. The law empowers authorities to conduct compulsory AIDS tests on those suspected of carrying the virus, and any foreigner who refuses to be tested may be expelled...
That argument appeared all the more tortured last week, when the Pentagon granted monthly "imminent danger" pay bonuses to 10,000 U.S. service members on duty in the Persian Gulf area. Although the decision raised hackles among members of both the House and Senate, the Administration drew a fine distinction. The $110 bonus is justified by the threat of terrorist attack, it claimed, not military hostilities. National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci pointed out that the bonuses have been paid under similar circumstances to service personnel in Lebanon and El Salvador...
...major issue. An important theme of his papacy has been the danger of man becoming the "slave of things." He has frequently preached that in affluent nations, materialism, selfishness and consumerism close the "horizons of the spirit." According to the TIME poll, an impressive 76% of Catholics and 56% of Protestants think that "Americans in particular should pay attention" to the Pope's words on materialism. Some 56% of Catholics also say the Pope's warnings are relevant to their own lives, though only 33% of Protestants think...
...bright windows of my new home," Aksyonov concludes. "I see its mildewed corners as well. I trust that if I point them out my new country won't throw me out." Not to worry. America tends to welcome its satirists, even smother them with ^ affection. In fact, the danger for Aksyonov is that, like sharp-minded emigres before him, he will become so fond of the place that his criticism will lose its bite...