Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheiks, and the Egyptians, Saudi Arabians, Iraqis and Iranians are also out to extend their influence in the Gulf. Result: the Trucial sheiks are scurrying around looking for ways to protect themselves. Last week's pact is just a start toward banding together in the face of danger. This week the sheiks gather in Dubai to discuss enlarging the federation to include the five smaller states-Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Umm al Qaiwain and Ras al Khaimah...
Meanwhile California's academic administrators complain that faculty morale is at an alltime low, worry about the steady exodus of star professors, and insist that what was once the nation's finest system of public higher education is in danger of heading to ward mediocrity. Last week John Summerskill, 42, resigned after two years as president of San Francisco State, home of one of the nation's first student-initiated "free colleges" and a campus noted for its unorthodox ways. Lamenting the "financial starvation" that faces his college, Summerskill complained that "the political leadership is tuned...
...Conference Board, makes a very different point. Noting that the Federal Reserve Board's index of factory, mine and utility production declined in January, Gainsbrugh said last week: "If you have slack in the industrial capacity, it's hard to persuade people that they're in danger of an overheated economy...
...danger of nuclear war--long the implied ultimate threat of continued escalation in Vietnam--has taken on a chilling new air of plausibility this month...
Nuclear weapons may not come at Khesanh. But unless the course of the war changes drastically there, the danger of nuclear war in Vietnam will no longer be remote...