Word: perilousness
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Just as one of the grand traditions in science fiction is to be antiscience, warning of the dangers of ambition, so fiction of the supernatural often tends to be subtly antimagic. The underlying message in each case is the inherent peril in man's playing God. The two genres are cunningly fused in the rich and absorbing new novel by Clive Barker, a horror writer (The Books of Blood, Weaveworld) and filmmaker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) who is branching into fantasy. While The Great and Secret Show is populated by a DeMille-size cast of pubescent schoolgirls, suburban worthies, seedy entertainers...
...switch reflects the growing peril of runaway borrowing. Last year 68,112 U.S. firms filed for bankruptcy vs. 10,622 in 1981. And the failures are getting larger. The assets of bankrupt companies totaled $67 billion in 1989, up 52% from the previous year. The 1990 pace could be even quicker. Since January the Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert (assets: $3.6 billion) and , the U.S. retailing arm of Canada's Campeau Corp. ($9 billion) have sought protection from creditors. They joined such major companies as Eastern Air Lines and LTV Corp., the third largest U.S. steel company, which...
...Whether someone should proceed, they do so at their own peril...
...with the normal financial aid setting process. Schools involved with overlap groups must decide whether to engage in their annual financial aid information exchange--a practice which is rumored to be at the center of the investigation. One Justice Department official said the schools are proceeding "at their own peril...
There is little hope that either country will settle its political differences soon enough to allow a swift rescue of the people in peril. Ethiopia has recently claimed victories against the Tigre rebels, which may soften Mengistu just enough to permit some relief operations, at least for a time. But in Sudan, stiff rebel resistance threatens only to convince Bashir that his best course is to continue to block the already difficult lines of transport into the south -- and let starvation and disease do the rest...