Word: perilousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senator Bill Bradley argues that nothing short of a constitutional amendment capping spending as well as contributions can repair a political system nearly everyone deplores. This week even the politicians joined in the condemnation. But they have ignored voters before, without paying a price. They ignore it at their peril...
...Clinton turnaround has come with costs. The tale of how he brought it off involves excessive influence over foreign policy by a special-interest group, gloves-off bureaucratic infighting and a willingness to bash U.S. allies for electoral gain. It also involves peril. Wooing Dade County's 678,000 Cuban Americans has resulted in the most volatile period of confrontation with Havana since the 1962 missile crisis. The Pentagon fears it is only a matter of time before another event like February's shoot-down of two U.S. civilian planes by Cuban MiGs sparks a military confrontation between...
Among Israeli security officials on the new front line, the mood was more sad than indignant. The good relations established over the past three years between soldiers and officers on both sides had been one of the glowing achievements of the peace process. Now that was all in peril. "They were shooting at us like we never made peace, like they never sat with us, like we never laughed together," lamented a young officer in the Gaza Strip. One of the wounded soldiers Netanyahu visited in Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital told the Prime Minister he recognized the man who shot...
Morris: The Republican Convention sliced 10 points off our lead, from 17 down to 7. It was the only point since January we faced serious peril...
...REPUBLICANS, Aug. 19]. Among the planks I looked at there was a statement arguing for campaign reform; a charge that certain tax-relief proposals were primarily for "those with the largest incomes"; a warning that the use of narcotics, especially the rise in heroin addiction, was a "grave peril to America"; and criticism about the delays in our legal system. Other issues addressed were natural resources in Alaska, the need for increased power for the states and reduction in arms. The platforms I was reviewing dated from 1912 and 1924. The more things change, the more they stay the same...