Word: dangerously
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Endangered Majority. Publicly, the Gaullists profess to be unworried about the outcome. Privately, however, they concede that their majority is in danger. If the latest public opinion polls are any guide, France's next Assembly may be split fairly evenly between Gaullist and leftist Deputies, with the Center Catholics of Lecanuet holding the balance of power. Such an alignment would almost certainly wreck whatever chances Pompidou has of eventually taking over from De Gaulle. But it could also force De Gaulle to soften his anti-U.S. stand in the interest of a working agreement with the Center...
...there is a danger that Common Room statements would often be unrepresentative of their total membership...
...analysis, I am not convinced that the Institute is necessary; both its intentions and its functions have yet to be made clear." Walzer (who taught what he described as the first and only theory course at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) said that the primary danger of the Kennedy Institute is that it will create an over-fascination with policy questions, and will entice students away from studying history and philosophy...
...danger is not that too many poor people will join the army, but that anyone -- rich or poor -- will be compelled to act against his own will. Drafting men by lottery and therefore without bias is preferable to drafting them according to class distinctions. The student deferment should be abolished because it is inequitable -- it dramatically increases the coercion on particular sectors of the population by removing the rich and the smart from the manpower pool...
...American students can forgive the NSA--as the first week's reaction shows they might--things will not be so simple in countries where the CIA is something of a specter. In fact, foreign students who came to the United States under NSA exchange programs are now in danger of being accused by their own governments of espionage. NSA leaders realize that the organization has become highly suspect to foreign students as well as to their governments. When the story broke, they began a frenetic letter-writing campaign to explain the nature of the ties to leaders of student unions...