Word: perilously
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...desire to make foreign policy by international consensus -- and the drawbacks to that approach. The Atlantic allies, at this "moment of decision," must strengthen their unity, but the task now was one particularly difficult for democracies: "To unite our people when they do not feel themselves in imminent peril...
...week and next month. If Kim Il Sung is staking the survival of his regime and his nation on the building of a nuclear arsenal, sanctions are not likely to change his course. And for Bill Clinton and the other world leaders who see nuclear proliferation as a deadly peril to the world, the costs of backing away from the effort to stop North Korea would be enormous...
...United" conference in Washington, D.C Formed at RFK's Hickory Hill farm in Virginia last spring, Third Millennium has laid claim to the future of Americans politics. "if I were a politician and I were not concerned about this organization and the generation, I would do so at my peril," warns the group's spokesperson Deroy Murdock. Third Millennium has effectively snatched the voice of the generation. The creation of 20 former Students for Reagan, writers, publicists, and the son of a Kennedy, the group has built a media machine from a pithy agenda and the support of two foundations...
...Whosoever saves a single Jew," teaches the Babylonian Talmud, "Scripture ascribes it to him as though he had saved an entire world." How then should one regard those who, out of indifference, cowardice or neglect, did not help Jews whose lives were in peril? The Holocaust raises that question with particular force. As Vice President Al Gore said at a commemorative ceremony in Washington last week, people who watched and did nothing share blame with the Nazis for the death of 6 million Jews...
...Lillehammer Games began in panoply and kitsch, they seemed, especially to Americans, painfully ill-starred. From murder and mayhem to medical peril, from fatal accidents to merely mortifying tumbles, from wolf- pack aggression by American reporters to spontaneous affronts by the egalitarian hosts toward the pampered panjandrums of the International Olympic Committee, the news often evoked disillusionment or dismay...