Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...researchers agree on their prediction, but in every case they were correct. Enthusiastically they reported that there is no reason why the test should not always be 100% accurate. Then they quickly added a word of caution. Since obtaining a sample of the amniotic fluid "is not without danger," they carefully noted that the new method should not be used simply "for satisfying the curiosity of the parents...
There is a very real danger, however, that the recommendations of the commission may get caught in a cross-fire between the police, who fear...
...believe the public is seriously misled by a tendency to regard crime as a simple phenomenon, rather than distinguishing among offenses by type and degree of seriousness. For example, I suppose most people in this country today assume the danger of their being murdered or raped is increasing all the time. But the reported figures indicate that the rate of these crimes -- while high enough to be a continuing source of worry -- has barely kept pace with the overall population increase, and I believe we can assume that reporting is quite complete on homicides and unambiguous rapes. The dramatic relative...
...stills, but it is cheap. It is the favorite drink of the unemployed or of those, like construction workers, whose employment depends on the vagaries of business cycles and white foremen. For retailers of moonshine, the customer turnover is great, the clientele uproarious, the profit margin low, and the danger ever-present that state agents will move in on whatever still happens at the moment to be supplying whiskey houses in the area...
...inherently high velocity of any object in orbit, most pieces of space junk are consumed in their fiery plunge through the earth's atmosphere. But as man launches more and more satellites and probes-the Japanese are scheduled to loft their first satellite this week-the danger, however small, will obviously increase. The U.N. conferees have agreed that the launching nation should be liable for any damage inflicted by a satellite dropout, and both Russia and the U.S. have promised to accept liability without the customary court showing of negligence. In a related issue, they agreed that any downed...