Word: perilously
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...Sense of Unease The political parties have seized upon the government's diminishing credibility. "We're in grave economic peril," says Hussain of the BNP. "It's time for democratic unity." His party and the Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist party that has existed for decades in direct antagonism to the secular-left Awami League, took the unprecedented step of calling for even Hasina's release from prison. They bridle at the caretaker government's undemocratic attempts to reform democracy from the top down. "Just see the U.S.," says Jamaat's Ali Ahsan Mojaheed. "It took hundreds of years...
Reports like Park's are vital if we are to persuade today's young parents, most of whom have never seen a case of paralytic polio, that immunization remains essential in today's global society. Fears and myths about vaccines place our children in peril. Kelly Lacek's story shows how difficult it can be for parents to navigate the labyrinth of conflicting reports in the media. We must work together to solve the mystery of autism while safeguarding one of the most successful public-health initiatives of all time. Renee R. Jenkins, President, American Academy of Pediatrics ELK GROVE...
...writer-director's dad, David, devised this year's festival poster: a lipsticked woman in some unknown peril, her eyes masked by a censor's black strip. Jennifer's new feature, her first since the 1993 Boxing Helena, has some of that eerie mystery; it's an authentic, systematically annoying weirdie about the investigation of a roadside homicide. Five were brutally killed by a couple of maniacs in leatherface masks. Now the three shaken survivors are being questioned in a police station by two outside agents (Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond) who are skeptical of the variations in the stories...
...Gordon Brown will be praying that the market stays afloat. Trailing in the polls behind the Conservative opposition, the last thing his beleaguered Labour government needs is a messy collapse of the housing sector. Labour was in opposition during the last slump, and has since invoked it as a peril of Tory government. To head off the worst this time, Labour ministers announced plans on May 9 to extend debt-advice services and free legal representation to those at risk of losing their homes. Yet just days later, as Housing Minister Caroline Flint entered Brown's Downing Street home...
...movies were alike in at least one major way: they did their darnedest to mute elements of religion. Anyone unaware of the books' underlying religious themes would not have become aware of them from the film versions. Both were streamlined into familiar epics of children finding adventure and peril in a fantasy realm of talking animals and fearsome monarchs; the young people in these tales might have been Dorothy yanked from Kansas and set down in Oz. Whatever was lost in the transfer of these stories from page to screen, they retained the crucial lure...