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...British king to threaten the French crown with a tennis metaphor. In Henry V, King Henry warns the French Ambassador: "When he have match'd our rackets to these balls,/ We will in France, by God's grace, play a set/ Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard/ Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler/ That all the courts of France will be disturb...
Many do. Civil cases account for about 85% of all judicial activity, reflecting the fact that courts have become not only a guardian of the state's authority but also the arbiter of all sorts of social matters. Says Columbia Law Professor John Hazard: "They spend most of their time determining who should get what apartment space, who has earned what salary, who should do what...
Last fall, driven by a common anger at senseless environmental destruction, potential hazard, and the corporate refusal to listen to dissent, the Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook (CDAS) called for the first occupation attempt on the site of the partially-built nuclear power station. Two thousand protesters arrived in rural New Hampshire, Oct. 6, 1979. The weekend, glorious in ways, should also have served as instruction in the tactics of protest. Three days of fence-cutting attempts failed utterly, mostly due to the density of state police and National Guardsmen...
Admittedly, modern times are fraught with real hazards, and no sensible person would sniff at prudent precautions. Still, it is hard not to shudder at the sheer volume of disquieting cautions, at the constancy, variety and intensity of the fearful clamor. Indeed, one may reasonably wonder whether the very climate of alarm itself has not become a hazard to health and serenity. Everybody's psyche now takes a drubbing day in and out from the concatenations of danger. An American can scarcely make a move nowadays without being pushed into a state of alert...
...risk taker," but it was his first flight on that particular polar route. One theory was that he may have been battered by a sudden "cat"-a burst of vicious clear-air turbulence. Others speculated that Collins might have been the victim of the most treacherous hazard in polar flying: a "whiteout," when blowing snow can cause even the most experienced pilots to lose all sense of perspective and direction...