Word: perilousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enterprise is fraught with peril. While the combined company will possess a legendary treasure trove, it also must deal with several crowned heads and princelings whose egos and territorial rights must be either respected or dealt with before they can cause trouble. The very size of the venture is likely to focus the regulatory eye of government on the transaction. And many wonder whether the growth Levin and Turner promised from the combined companies' assets can really be achieved...
...ticket sales. That pejorative expression that has so much currency--"obviously written with a movie in mind"--requires qualification when applied to Crichton. "I think of Michael as the high priest of high concept," says Spielberg. All right, concept: Island. Theme park. Dinosaurs. Adults swallowed whole. Kids in peril. Easy. But who said the author had to give us the history of computers along with it? And chaos theory? Fractal vs. Euclidean geometry? And the workings of a Stegosaurus gizzard? And dna? So much dna it's a wonder Crichton hasn't been called as an expert witness...
...French to witness the explosions, write a few postcards of Mururoa and drop them into the PX mail slot, get the French to search for them, and perhaps stall the first test. The stunt is planned as a classic Greenpeace "action," a dead-serious, nonviolent prank executed at considerable peril...
...barbershop: "The only codes that mean anything in this country are those duly passed by the governing authorities and the codes of God. I fail to see where Mark Whitacre violated any of those codes. In fact, it appears to me that he upheld those codes to his peril...
...revisionist history." By a vote of 230 to 194, driven by a rump of dozens of junior members, the House voted to "zero out" all funding for the NEA by October 1997 and phase out the agency in two years. The NEH and CPB are also in peril...