Word: perilousness
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...Review was often not an easy read, but people who needed to know Asia skipped it at their peril. It took equally seriously the plight of hill tribes in Bangladesh and adjustments in monetary policy in Malaysia. Under the protection of British laws in Hong Kong, it was able to deliver genuine, often hard-hitting news to readers in countries where the media had no freedom or were heavily regulated-and, until the late 1980s, that was the case in most of Asia. The Review had a discernibly expat, Hong Kong-centric perspective-Southeast Asia always seemed more important than...
...only ones anxious about strong women today. TV executives are too, after the out-of-nowhere success of the No. 1 new series Desperate Housewives. ABC's dark-humored soap suggests that all is not well on Venus in 2004--and that you underappreciate women at your peril, in TV and in life...
...into the political fray whenever he feels it is necessary. Just last week he issued a statement encouraging all Iraqis to participate in the election scheduled for January, and he called on the Iraqi government to start registering voters. The powers that be in Iraq ignore him at their peril...
...filmgoers, skip this one. You’ll regret seeing it. And if you want to see it, just wait until it gets to Lifetime, if it’s even good enough to make the rigorous damsel-in-peril screening process...
...Peril lurks around every corner. Even in Ramadi, a Sunni town that the U.S. military considers under its control, the Marines are ambushed nearly every day by insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades. Convoys passing through the city must navigate a minefield of roadside bombs. The violence has made it impossible to carry out missions to win the hearts and minds of the locals, most of whom have never warmed to the U.S. presence. The Marines in Ramadi don't use tanks and rarely call in air support; instead, they rely on guile, guts and instinct to hunt down the insurgents...