Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first glance, limiting access to Houses seems like a reasonable safety precaution. But in reality, limited access is self-defeating, as it places undergraduates who do not have access to certain buildings in greater danger than it protects those who live in the buildings...
...special forces, civilian-government agents or foreign terrorists to hand-deliver biological or chemical agents clandestinely." Saddam would hardly produce such weapons if he never intended to use them. And when might he unleash them? The CIA thought it would be when he felt his survival was in danger. "He would want to take as many of his enemies with him as he could," the agency predicted...
...York City was getting with the program last week, trying to face up to the danger. The city has spent millions for training and equipment since the World Trade Center bombing, much of it from grants provided by the Defense Department, which paid for the VX exercise. Even so, some experts are unimpressed. "The New York region," says Isaac Yeffet, former head of security for El Al, the Israeli airline, "is no better prepared for a terrorist attack today than it was before the World Trade Center bombing." Building security is very poor, and "the airports are still wide open...
...Banking collapses in either country would pull back gobs of capital from the U.S. and possibly slay the bull market. At the same time, a sharp drop in demand for U.S. exports could slow or stall the soundest peacetime expansion in recent American history. Perhaps more worrisome is the danger Rubin warned against--that Japan and Korea might slash prices of exports to the U.S. to restart their economic engines, and thereby ignite a trade...
...still the controversy grows over the McCaughey's use of fertility drugs. The debate is likely to be fueled by new research released Monday, which shows the sperm count dropping even lower among Western men than scientists had previously suspected. If infertility is such a present danger, perhaps we ought to be glad of all the multiple births...