Word: perilousness
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...indeed, Dickens' words may be especially apt for 1982, a year with no poetry in its sound, no numerical magic. It is a year that a number of scholars and statesmen are already predicting will be momentous for the industrial democracies of the West, a time combining peril...
...long as they remain, will continue to be, a potent factor of unrest." Another incendiary element is Britain's continuing recession. More than half the blacks under age 19 in Brixton are jobless. To ignore such economic realities, writes Scarman, "is to put the nation in peril...
...many foreigners are learning that America's streets of gold can also be pitted with peril. Says Herbert Jacobi, a partner in West Germany's Berliner Handels und Frankfurter Bank: "Many Europeans do not realize that America is the land of economic Darwinism. Some of them are going to fall flat on their faces...
...acknowledge that even admidst Peril of financial Hardship facing our city and the new Threat of Nuclear War facing the City and the World, we as yet have such Abundance and such Peace as to rejoice." Duehay stated in the proclamation...
...President who ignores those distant rumbles and internal mutterings and fails to take corrective action can find himself in peril. It is a delicate time for the Reagan presidency...