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...economy, assistance in training and relocating farm families who are displaced-these and other measures can soften the impact of disturbing economic changes, and in doing so promote the kind of economic climate that encourages better race relations." Concluded the report: "Where poverty exists, liberty is always in peril...
...dead issue and Alabama's Congressmen would have to run at large in the 1962 election. Despite their years of service, none of the nine has a statewide reputation; all, as a result, would stand in danger of losing. The nine men themselves were acutely aware of the peril. Warned Albert Rains, a nervous veteran of 17 years on Capitol Hill and a specialist on public housing: "We've got almost 200 years of seniority wrapped up among us. That's a big investment for the people of Alabama to throw away...
...Medical School): "The argument that the practicing physician is the only one who can determine efficacy . . . is an invitation to all manufacturers to dump into the hands of busy practitioners any and all types of good and bad drugs and devices, and let them learn, at the expense and peril of their patients, whether they are any help. With over 200,000 physicians and their patients as potential prey, the result would be untold harm...
...could stand today, and ensemble, a word which today seems to belong to the cloak-and-suit trade, but which Walt intended to mean "the idea of Totality, of the All-successful, final certainties of each individual man, as well as the world he inhabits." Many people, to their peril, have taken the flatulent old Faust at his own measure. Were it not for the genius of Leaves of Grass, this sort of thing would have been buried mercifully for the flapdoodle it is. But then, scholars have no mercy...
Tricky Business. Archaeologists raised the alarm when they realized the temple's peril, and several schemes were suggested to keep the water away from Ramses' memorial. One faction wanted to cover the temple with a watertight dome, another to protect it with a curving cofferdam. Both dome and cofferdam could be built, but they would be difficult to maintain and would dwarf the temple. The most attractive scheme, conceived by Italian Archaeologist Piero Gazzola, was to cut the whole temple free of the surrounding rock and lift it with 308 hydraulic jacks to a new place above...