Word: imperilling
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...raising the zoning requirement to one house on 40 acres. They argue that if the population is allowed to rise, the residents will clamor for flood-control drainage canals, thus further reducing the area's ability to clean and store water. Beyond this, environmentalists point out, development will imperil the East Everglades as a feeding and breeding ground for wildlife in the neighboring national park, home of such endangered species as the Cape Sable sparrow and the Florida panther...
Though images of cosmonauts and astronauts tumbling and frolicking in weightlessness suggest that the living is easy, Salyut showed that the body undergoes radical changes when freed from the influence of gravity. Some changes are so severe that they could imperil the lives of long-term space voyagers once they return to earth. Many observers of the U.S. space program, including scientists within NASA, feel that in contrast to the Soviets, the U.S. space agency has paid far too little attention to what happens to the human body during long periods in orbit...
Terrorism and turmoil imperil U.S. hopes for moderate reform...
...same model indicates that to achieve a dramatically lower core inflation rate by 1985 (say a drop to 6%) by demand management alone would require near depression conditions, e.g. unemployment over 10% for the whole period. That would seriously damage the economy, probably radicalize the electorate, and imperil the capitalist system. Fiscal and monetary policy alone, then, will not solve our problems...
...leaf for the corporations that in no way change the fundamental problems of apartheid, and are being used counter to Sullivan's own intentions." "Corporations are active in South Africa for cheap labor," Nolan says, adding, "it is simply unrealistic to believe they will take steps that would imperil their profits or the system of apartheid...