Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 40 years. Ryzhkov replied with a detailed discussion of Soviet arms-reduction aims and complained about France's nuclear policy. "Unfortunately," he declared, "at present we do not see France among those who intervene against nuclear deterrence or those who wish to halt the roulette of military peril in Europe...
...Counsel Walsh, who has voiced deep concern about protecting possible indictments, the two key figures in the entire affair will not be heard until at least mid-June. Former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who was kept informed by North about almost everything he did, poses the most direct peril to the President. Cool and at least outwardly serene at the center of the scandal, the pipe-puffing admiral has told friends he intends to lay his story out candidly and will not be shaken by others. He has privately said he feels that he kept the President informed...
Guile, however, had no role in the ninth round, when Leonard finished winning the crowd and started finishing the fight. In terrible peril on the ropes, he twice flurried his way out and left Hagler shaking apart and griping aloud for a different kind of fight. Somewhere Leonard found the legs to obey his corner elf Angelo Dundee, who set him to dancing like Ali, complete with funny faces and windmills. Hagler smiled sadly. Before the last round began, Leonard raised a beckoning glove to the crowd, and by following suit Hagler only confirmed whose game they had been playing...
...advocate for young people, the nation's poorest and most vulnerable group. As founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, Edelman has ensured that even though the young cannot vote or make campaign contributions, they are not ignored in Washington. In her just published book, Families in Peril (Harvard University Press; $15.00), she contends, "As adults we are responsible for meeting the needs of children. It is our moral obligation. We brought about their births and their lives, and they cannot fend for themselves...
...even greater peril, in the view of TIME's economists, is the effect of the debt burden on U.S. corporations and consumers in the event of recession. So extended are American businesses and individuals that the resulting bankruptcies and attendant hardships would probably be more severe than during any downturn in recent memory. Says Board Member Lester Thurow, an economist at M.I.T.: "You are going to have more personal defaults than normal, more corporate defaults than normal, more Third World debtor defaults than normal -- all of those dominoes tumbling at the same time...