Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accepting independence for the territory. Although formally both State Department and National Security Council officials insisted Washington remains opposed to the idea, a number of senior officials confirmed privately that policy was now being guided by the inevitability of independence. Such a policy shift would not only raise the danger of renewed conflict in the region, but could also pose problems for U.S. leadership in resolving future international conflicts...
...Prevention of Danger law was rescinded because military leaders likely realized that wielding the big stick could provoke rather than prevent danger in the diverse and often fractious 13,000-island archipelago. "Secessionist rumblings are stretching the army pretty thin, and they may have come to the view that claiming martial law powers at this point was a mistake," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Cracking down too hard right now may actually trigger more secessionist activity, and the Indonesian military has a very sophisticated approach to dealing with these things. It?s also not a monolith ? it's generals...
...They are an attractive tool for the inexpensive spreading of death," explains William M. Arkin, the chief military consultant to Human Rights Watch, which issued a report about the danger of duds titled "Ticking Time Bombs." The report states that the actual dud rate, as measured in the Gulf War, was close to a quarter of the bomblets, over four times the official Air Force estimate. Arkin said duds result from a variety of reasons and that their fuse work is often shoddy. He added that the cluster bombs have "Gameboy-like electronics," in an effort to create widescale destruction...
...tired of hearing how the U.S. is getting more dangerous every day for everyone from minorities to schoolchildren. There have always been violence and violent people here. With a population of more than 260 million, the U.S. is a place where anything can happen anytime. The real problem is that the press, making such a big thing out of every occurrence, is convincing people that we are all in danger. There's no question that schoolchildren get hurt and killed, but more than 15 million students go to high school every day and are not injured. Not everyone...
While civilians are encouraged to read and professional poets show up, it's the cops who are causing the interest, maybe because of contributions like this one from Officer Linda Griffith: "He allows me to walk [amid] the danger./He lets me extend help to a stranger./My flesh crawls and I miss him when he's not under my wing./I don't let people see or touch him, it's a private thing./So you should be grateful and understand what I've done./If and when I let you touch the butt...