Word: perilousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officers have said they feel their hard work is often ignored or not understood by the community. It is not that Harvard students, faculty and staff are not grateful, they say. It is that many members of the community do not know the extent of the peril their work entails...
...simple, undeniable fact is that their sexuality makes lesbians and gay men targets of violence and discrimination. It is a fact that a democracy ignores at its peril; the Colorado amendment's attempt to proscribe homosexuals from state protection is the real threat to civilization. Mansfield's evaluation of the worth of gay lives is moronic, but more crucially, it's irrelevant to the issue of whether they should be protected as citizens. Homosexuals do not demand rights based on their contributions to anything--the arts, a cocktail party or civilization. They base their demands on the same weathered premise...
EASTERN EUROPE "In a new era of peril and opportunity," Clinton told the U.N. last month, "our overriding purpose must be to expand the world's community of market-based economies . . . We seek to enlarge the circle of nations that live under those free institutions." That goal has led the U.S. to support Boris Yeltsin at all costs, which has so far meant ignoring his authoritarian impulses. Russia is a special case, of course, but other states of the former Soviet empire eager for democracy and free markets are also eager for security from Russia. Poland, Hungary and the Czech...
...Today the scientific capability of theAmerican university is the envy of the world,"Levin said. "We neglect its support at our peril...
Still, even with the strengthened returns, theroad ahead is not likely to be entirely smooth orwithout peril for the University's money. AsHarvard officials are quick to point out, thereare no guarantees that foreign stocks willcontinue to do well...