Word: perilousness
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After three American soldiers were killed when the rocket motor of a Pershing II missile caught fire in Germany last January, the Army launched an investigation into the cause. The review, however, disclosed a different kind of peril: the ill-concealed missiles were subject to terrorist attacks. With this in mind, the Army last month sent a letter to Congress stating that the highly accurate weapons were "extremely vulnerable," and requested $1.8 million to improve the security of the approximately 50 nuclear missiles that / the U.S. has already deployed in Germany...
...conservative to chair the NEH, Big Grant submitted a history proposal with a thesis that amounted to this: slavery was bad, of course, but could the slaves be said to have suffered compared to the Yeshiva student on Norman Podhoretz's block in Brooklyn who lived in constant peril of being ridiculed by black teen-agers for throwing like a girl...
...energy than image. All the image consulting in the world cannot help the true corporate loser. Nor can it cure incompetence. Nonetheless, Molloy found that most people believe that speaking, moving and dressing correctly are critical to getting ahead. The office slob remains so at his or her peril...
Such harshness has startled the Japanese and clearly left them shaken. Said one Tokyo banker: "There's a hurricane of anti-Japanese sentiment blowing that's reminiscent of the days when William Randolph Hearst played up the yellow peril." The Japanese insist that they are doing more than ever to encourage American firms to do business in their country. Last week the Japan External Trade Organization was host to a four-day fair for products of 250 small and medium-size U.S. exhibitors. Among them: Montana Log Homes of Kalispell, Mont., and AmLab International, a New Jersey maker of pharmaceuticals...
...some 40 states were raising taxes. Income, corporate and motor-fuel taxes in Ohio, for example, went up a staggering 40% to 50%. In 1982, 30 states again raised sales, individual or corporate income taxes. Last year 43 states imposed new tax increases. Lawmakers did so at their political peril. In Michigan, two state senators who supported Governor James Blanchard's 38% income tax increase in 1983 were recalled by irate voters. But while voters balked at the medicine, they appreciated the cure. Michigan's deficit has shrunk from $1.7 billion to $250 million in the past...