Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chairman into saying or doing something else that could discredit the investigation. Sources close to the Speaker tell TIME that Gingrich is so concerned about Burton's reputation that he has assigned two members of the committee known for their judiciousness to try to steer Burton away from further danger...
...example, will extending the West's nuclear shield eastward mean more stability in Europe, where war this century has cost 50 million lives, including those of 500,000 Americans? Or will expansion just redivide Europe along a more eastward line, angering Russian nationalists who consider the plan an offensive danger and who may respond by ousting the new democrats, stopping the reduction of nuclear and chemical stockpiles and resuming nuclear threats? Is it sensible to extend a military alliance and in the process antagonize Russia when it is not threatening the democracies of its former clients, especially when they...
City officials defend the ordinance as necessary to prevent collisions between pedestrians and bikers. It seems they believe that the danger posed to pedestrians by slow-moving, 50 pound bikes is much greater than the danger posed to bikers by fast-moving, 3000 pound cars. Not only does the ordinance put lives at risk, but it will annoy both bikers and drivers. In Harvard Square, traffic is often bumper-to-bumper and cars are always parked along the sides of streets, so bikers will often have no place to ride, giving students who live in the Quad nowhere...
Second is a possible miscalculation of U.S. actions during some kind of crisis. The Russians might wrongly think they were under attack from the West and fire their rockets. This danger has greatly increased because the Russian early-warning system is not what it used to be. It has lost major radar stations in the new nations of Ukraine, Latvia and others. Some of its satellite-tracking stations have gone to Ukraine, Georgia and Kazakhstan. The high command is now partially blind, which increases its apprehensions, produces false alarms and makes good decisions harder...
...course, a clever person in this situation can find one thing to complain about: things have gotten too placid, too settled, too nice. Aren't we really happiest in times of great conflict and danger? The novelist Walker Percy raised this point in his essays years ago. "Why," he asked, "is [a] man apt to feel good in a very bad environment, say an old hotel on Key Largo during a hurricane?" Percy discussed the estrangement of the commuter passing through New Jersey: his needs are entirely satisfied, but he feels bad. "The Bomb would seem to be sufficient reason...