Word: perilousness
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...Stennis, the report showed the need for "vigorous and prompt corrective action," but he emphasized that "we're not in any peril point." With that, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara heartily agreed. Moreover, McNamara argued, in closed-door testimony before the Senate Defense Appropriations subcommittee last week, that the shortages cited in the Stennis report are exaggerated in some cases, nonexistent in others...
Though Pleiku was open for the moment, the peril in the highlands was hardly diminished. The next likely pressure point in the Viet Cong's plateau push is Kontum, once a pleasant mountain village of open-air cafés with circus awnings and a population of 14,000. Though only 30 miles from Pleiku, Kontum is surrounded by some 6,000 guerrillas backed up by an estimated 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars, and is still accessible only by airlift, as is nearby Ban Me Thuot. If the Viet Cong attack, as seems almost certain, Kontum's fate...
Nominally a Democrat, Baruch was also a conservative economist, kept warning that inflation is "the single greatest peril to our economic health." That philosophy did not endear him to the New Deal, but during World War II, F.D.R. nonetheless named him special adviser to the Office of War Mobilization. In the early war years, Baruch occasionally met with Harvard President James Bryant Conant and M.I.T. President Karl Comptonon an oak bench in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House, to discuss an official report on rubber resources. That bench -facing the wrong end of an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson-became...
Though nobody really knows if credit has reached a peril point, there are some disturbing signals. Private debt lately has been increasing at a somewhat faster rate than the nation's gross national product, personal income or personal savings. The number of businessmen who fell into bankruptcy last year because they could not collect the debts owed to them by other businessmen was higher than in almost any other year since World War II. The percentage of personal income that went for installment payments, which held at 13% in the late 1950s, jumped...
Other Swedish papers belittled the expose; one went so far as to speculate that it might be an "unfunny practical joke." But it was no laughing matter to the government. While admitting that the Nazi peril had been exaggerated by Expressen, the government nevertheless charged Lundahl with "armed threat against lawful order," an offense that could jail him for ten years. Meanwhile Granquist, for fear of his life, fled to Israel, where the newspapers were giving the story almost as big a play as the Swedish press...