Word: perilousness
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...inherited real estate. He holds plenty of cash on hand "because you never know what might happen." When Baghdadis leave their homes each morning, they know that a bomb or rocket or gun might add them to the city's lengthening civilian-casualty list. Traffic adds hours to the peril, as cars move at an agonizingly slow pace through improvised checkpoints and blocked-off streets. "My family says the profit is not enough, the suffering of the journey too great," says Radhy, who travels in the anonymity of a rattletrap city taxi because kidnappers often target doctors who can afford...
...Attny office. They seem nervous about the ink Sue [Fortunato, Stewart's assistant] didn?t test. She wrote the report without talking about the one entry she couldn?t test and they wrote the indictment for Martha.? In another message, Stewart seems aware of the possible legal peril when he describes the document, a worksheet that listed Martha's stock holdings at Merrill Lynch. ?The document,? he says in a Feb. 18 message, ?was just [shown on a news program playing] on the big screen in Times Square saying an undisclosed expert was going to testify. Ohh s___. Would have...
...North Carolina senator who is widely regarded as a better campaigner than Kerry - isn't likely to change that. Bush has polarized the U.S. into camps of those who love the President - who believe that, since Sept. 11, 2001, he has shown steadfast leadership at a time of great peril - and those who hate him - who believe that his Administration has been dangerously mendacious and driven by ideology, and who regard the war in Iraq as a diversion from more pressing targets in the struggle against terrorism. President Bush is a man who sees the world in black and white...
...change down the system at one time, and Gingrich was a better politician than I was in '94. His major contribution to American political history was the proof that you could consistently nationalize midterm elections. And it's a lesson that any Democrat or Republican now ignores at their peril...
TIME: So was there a communication failure there? Because right from the time you announced the de-Baathification policy, many Iraqis thought their careers would be in peril because they had been forced to join the party...