Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heller, however, was no doctrinaire expansionist. After leaving office in 1964, he saw clearly the danger of resurgent inflation in an overheated economy and tried vainly to persuade Lyndon Johnson to raise taxes again to pay for the Viet Nam War. Though he lost that round -- and had to watch while war-driven inflation soared -- he retained his influence as a professor, an inveterate witness before congressional committees and a counselor to Democratic politicians...
...sure, TV's first and still preeminent music-video channel is in no danger of demise. MTV is now available in 35.8 million cable homes, up from 2.5 million when it started. Though the number of viewers at any given time is relatively small, advertisers continue to seek MTV's desirable teenage audience. Net revenues have risen steadily (from $71 million in 1984 to $111 million in 1986, according to industry figures), and last year MTV turned a profit of $47 million...
...strain in relations between North and South has carried the possibility of another conflagration. The latest tensions surround North Korea's ongoing construction of a huge dam just north of the 151-mile Demilitarized Zone. South Koreans are convinced that, once completed, the dam will pose a major danger to Seoul. They fear that it will either collapse because of poor workmanship or, in a darker view, be deliberately burst by the Communists, perhaps as a prelude to invasion or in an attempt to disrupt the upcoming Olympics. In response, the South Koreans have begun construction of a countervailing "peace...
...this is a theoretical mind-play which by all accounts from the jurors--Black and white--does not begin to explain what went on in their heads. The excessive concentration on race serves only to divert attention from the true danger of the Goetz decision, its approval of vigilantism, not racism...
...referring to the strike against the Stark, President Reagan said the 37 sailors killed did not die in vain. My definition of "dying in vain" includes being killed in your bed without knowing you are in danger and without firing a shot. In the future, whenever the U.S. undertakes a mission into a hostile area, the Government should plan for the inevitable risks. Let's leave senseless martyrdom to others...