Word: perilousness
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...world's industrial democracies, the great peril is that they will fall into a new recession before most of them have fully recovered from the last one. Hoping to avoid such a tumble, the leaders of seven* nations have journeyed four times in the past three years to much-heralded economic summits, where they have issued ringing, sometimes even rambunctious, declarations about their resolve to cure ills. So far, they have been unable to solve the multiple problems of slow growth, threatening levels of inflation and high unemployment. Last week, as the leaders of the Seven returned home from...
...burst from the ovary, the cervical mucus will be too sticky for the entry of sufficient sperm into the uterus, and the lining of the uterus will not prepare to receive the fertilized egg. Indeed, hormonal disorders at any point in the sequence make it so fraught with peril for eggs and sperm that perhaps a third of all potential pregnancies end at the time of implantation. As Dr. Albert Decker of the New York Fertility Research Foundation puts it, "Pregnancy is not simple. Women do not get pregnant at the drop...
...months" and would need "tremendous skill" to avoid either another surge in prices or a quick slump back into recession, or perhaps both. Although Miller opposed his colleagues at the Fed on the need for another discount rate increase, he is persuaded that inflation is a more immediate peril than recession; he recommended that Congress postpone the 25?-an-hour increase in the minimum wage (now $2.65) that is set for next...
...does not come cheap: a major company that calls in an agency for a thorough study of its security needs may expect to pay $100,000 or so. Both Burns and Pinkerton's typically begin such a consultation with a "threat analysis," aimed at determining the degree of peril to which the company and its high-level executives are exposed. After that study, which may take as long as six months if the client has overseas branches, the advisers draw up a plan that outlines exactly how the company should react in various emergency and hostage situations, and designates...
...late in the afternoon, and he was dressed in an old West Point bathrobe of blue and gray wool which displayed the Army "A" on its back; occasionally he puffed on a corncob pipe. We rejoiced together that we alone understood the Japanese peril to America; in this sympathetic mood, he began to reminisce. He had been a young first lieutenant when he came here after graduation from West Point in 1903; he had fought the little Philippine brown brothers in the Aguinaldo insurrection. He had commanded a U.S. division in combat in World War I; had been Chief...