Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economy is the Federal Reserve, which has the power to cut interest rates if the expansion falters. But Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who warned of "irrational exuberance" in stock prices as far back as December 1996, remains more concerned about the threat of inflation than about the danger of a recession or a market collapse. Just last month Greenspan warned that plunging exports to Asia had done little to ease a growing U.S. labor shortage...
...postlaunch emergency below an altitude of 20,000 ft.; and rappel down ropes from the hatch if the spacecraft makes an emergency landing on tarmac. On his Mercury flight, Glenn's only safety measure was an escape rocket designed to ignite and carry the spacecraft out of danger if his Atlas rocket appeared likely to explode...
Whatever Glenn or any of his boosters say is the purpose of this mission, you and I know it is about romance and adventure and danger and the beauty of a person on a quest. The story-hungry mind is ageless too. And here is the old/new story of courage in a distant place, of daring and going. Never mind that the carpers call this mission useless. The public does not require a usefulness beyond its own admiring pleasure. As for the practicalities of the space program, it was never so useful as when it reminded the country of heroic...
...Have you ever given any gifts to Monica Lewinsky? A: I don't recall. Do you know what they were? There has always been a danger in the public's indifference to political fudging, which is that politicians will begin to take it as evidence that their audience really is a bunch of chumps. Clinton's problem is that now he is caught in a criminal investigation, where the rules are quite different from the murky conventions of politics. The acceptable evasions of p.r. are not transplantable...
Travel '98, beset by fiery cruise ships and bouncing aircraft, led us to ask these intrepid globe trotters about their narrowest escapes from danger...