Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saudi Arabia-based AWACS and Oman-based P-3C Orions, while air cover would primarily be supplied by a Navy carrier stationed outside the gulf. The Navy ships will probably escort small convoys of three or four Kuwaiti tankers through the gulf every ten days or so. The danger spot for U.S. vessels will be the 40- to 60-mile- wide Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has deployed Chinese-made Silkworm missiles...
...bail in most cases, except when there was reason to believe that a defendant might flee before trial. The new law has permitted those judges to refuse bail to thousands of suspects, most of them accused of violent and drug-related crimes, who could be shown to pose a danger to the "safety of any other person and the community." In effect, the accused is presumed to be, if not guilty, at least the guilty type...
...Israeli defense experts would insist on retaining control of the Jordan Valley, the string of hills stretching down the spine of the West Bank, and particularly the Golan Heights. To strengthen the argument that compromise is now possible, some Israelis point out that their country is no longer in danger of imminent annihilation, as it was in 1967, and can afford to make concessions for peace...
...danger of coming away with no answer to that question, however, may prove to be the best spur to productive talks at the three-day session. The No. 1 worry for the seven leaders is the rising potential for global recession along with a painful end to five years of sustained economic growth. To help prolong that expansion, the leaders must try to make stronger commitment to resist the lure of protectionism, which is beginning to cast a dangerous pall over world trade. Another summit priority will be taking further steps to ease the international debt crisis, which is simmering...
...same time, the danger to specific risk groups -- particularly intravenous drug abusers and their sex partners -- has been seriously underplayed. "The people who really need to be concerned," says Jaffe, "are the 15-year-old black and Hispanic girls who have IV drug-abusing boyfriends. I really wonder what they know about this and who is looking out for them...