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Then in an instant, everything changed. Over the Belknap's loudspeaker crackled a call given only if the ship is in peril or coming under attack: "Captain to the bridge!" Gangways aboard the Belknap filled with jostling men racing to their stations. Fifteen long seconds passed while the men tensed against the unknown. Then a heavy shock passed through the cruiser, followed by a long, rumbling shudder that felt like an earthquake. Up above, the Kennedy's angled landing deck was smashing through the superstructure of the Belknap like a battering ram. The impact crushed the ship...
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's interim Sinai agreement moved a significant step closer to congressional approval last week. Even as it did, one important and widely publicized clause in it already appeared to be in peril. The U.S. will not, after all, provide medium-range Pershing missiles to Israel as Kissinger had promised...
...Neither Gallup nor Harris found that the President's recent European journey helped him a bit in their measurements, and that cast doubt on whether the expected agreement in the Middle East would dispel the political and economic shadows. There is almost nothing, except a grave national military peril, that takes such a toll of Presidents as economics...
This technique is completely unpersuasive. Sociology--as Decter seems to realize when she says in a defense against those who would scoff at her lack of documentation, "This is the inevitable peril for anyone who seeks to discuss the world through the medium of his or her own senses"--requires some kind of evidence to support theories. True, Freud may not have had statistics, but at least his contributions were not descriptions of general social phenomena, and his work was based on personal exploration of his field. If no social theorists offered evidence to support their ideas, then the only...
...recovery, however, faces a peril: This fall OPEC is expected to raise the price of oil another $1.50 per bbl., to roughly $12. What is more, on Aug. 31 the U.S. law authorizing price controls on domestically produced oil expires; unless it is extended, the price of some 60% of oil from U.S. wells is likely to leap overnight from the present controlled...