Word: dicey
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...Rating almost every aspect of air travel, from on-time arrivals to mishandled baggage to customer complaints, the AQR study delivers negative numbers on nearly every count, for almost every airline. Now, experts say, there could be a very steep price to pay. "Any congressional action would get very dicey very quickly for the airlines," says Gritta, who writes frequently about the airline industry. "I normally don't advocate passing laws to get things done, but the airlines have had a chance to clean things up, and they've failed. And now, after years of relative apathy, congressional leaders...
...Things are dicey in West Palm. But compared to what? To Joseph McCarthy, to the Civil War, to the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II? We've hit a speed bump, we're not in a head-on collision...
...gunships were just miles away, about to rake targets near Arafat's Gaza City headquarters, and they didn't want Tenet caught in the cross fire. Tenet whipped his limo around and headed for Tel Aviv, where he phoned in a report to the White House. "It's pretty dicey here," he said...
American officials seem confident Kostunica would at least aim for stability and search for political solutions to Balkan conflicts rather than excite ethnic terror. They think he is making the right moves during this dicey period, pursuing legal appeals to confirm the vote as well as calling for peaceful civil disobedience to shut the country down and force a reckoning on Milosevic. While Kostunica insists that he won't stand in the regime's planned runoff, he remains reluctant to hand Milosevic an uncontested victory. The U.S. and Europe encouragingly promise to lift economic sanctions on Yugoslavia and dish...
...American officials seem confident Kostunica would at least aim for stability and search for political solutions to Balkan conflicts rather than excite ethnic terror. They think he is making the right moves during this dicey period, pursuing legal appeals to confirm the vote as well as calling for peaceful civil disobedience to shut the country down and force a reckoning on Milosevic. While Kostunica insists that he won't stand in the regime's planned runoff, he remains reluctant to hand Milosevic an uncontested victory. The U.S. and Europe encouragingly promise to lift economic sanctions on Yugoslavia and dish...