Word: perilously
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...need leaders brave enough to practice astringency, telling people what they don't want to hear. But his example of a leader who was great because he was astringent - Winston Churchill - never won an election through astringency. Throughout the 1930s, when he was warning of the Nazi peril, he was almost uniformly rejected as a crank. He was not elected Prime Minister in 1940; rather, he was installed by a Parliament that deferred general elections until after the war. And when one was finally held, in 1945, the British people promptly voted Churchill out of office. We need not only...
...Analysts say government officials are trying to keep a wave of business failures in the property sector from engulfing the larger domestic economy. Commercial and residential real estate markets in Japan are slumping, and with banks reluctant to lend, developers, contractors and other property companies are increasingly in peril. On Oct. 9, New City Residence Corp., a real estate investment trust, went bust, becoming the first REIT to fail since the trusts were allowed to sell stock to the public. "Property developers could face more bankruptcies if banks continue their severe attitude," says Masahiro Mochizuki, a REIT analyst at Credit...
...Kinsley names Winston Churchill as a leader who was great because he was astringent. But Churchill never won an election through astringency. In the 1930s, when he was warning of the Nazi peril, he was almost uniformly rejected as a crank. He was not elected Prime Minister in 1940; rather, he was installed by a Parliament that deferred elections until after the war. When one was finally held, in 1945, Churchill was voted out of office. We need not only great leaders but also a public great enough to accept their leadership. M.L. Cross, Stephenville, Texas...
Josef Joffe, Professor at Stanford, wrongfully insinuates in the article "Gloat at Your Peril" that the E.U. indulges in schadenfreude about the U.S. financial crisis [Oct. 20]. We all know what the global economy is about. Would anyone be stupid enough to ignore the fact that the entire human body suffers if just one organ gets sick? Helmar W. Kühn, FRANKFURT, GERMANY...
...search for equity between the competing claims of individuals - the sort that might be made by a Palestinian farmer, for example, who has seen water from the local aquifer appropriated by an Israeli settlement. We ignore such claims, and the sullen outrage that accompanies them, at our peril. But there is a second sense in which people make a claim of justice, and this is as a collective - asking that a group to which they belong should receive their just deserts of respect, dignity and influence...