Word: perils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expansive mood, the mayor of Buffalo, N.Y., recently described himself as "the best mayor that money can buy." He was kidding, of course-but it was the kind of joke that many politicians today would make at their peril. Once such a line might have brought down the house, but nowadays it comes uncomfortably close to the truth-not about corruption, but about a far more costly phenomenon: campaign expenditures. The growing dominance of TV on every level of political salesmanship has raised campaign costs astronomically and convinced the public that politics really is a rich man's game...
...began sending their planes over the Egyptian interior, the Soviet pilots would almost certainly challenge them. But what if the Israelis avoided "deep penetration" raids, yet were giving the Egyptians such a beating that Cairo began pressuring Moscow to send its pilots into battle? Beyond that, there is another peril-fraught contingency. The Israelis claim that they can neutralize or destroy the Soviet-built missile network if a new round of fighting erupts. Could they do so without either killing many Russian technicians or provoking a response from Russian jets ? or both...
Merita's trip thus symbolized both the power and the peril of Japan's rising position in the modern industrial world. Starting from a postwar pile of rubble in a nation almost devoid of raw materials, Japan's businessmen have built an economic superpower. Today it is flooding markets from Manila to Milwaukee with shoes, ships and steel, cameras, cable, cloth and cars, transformers, TV sets, tape recorders and, of course, the ubiquitous transistor radios. To many admiring but fretful Westerners, Japan has become a corporate state, and is even referred to as "Japan...
...Lieut. Galley has been found guilty. Of what? Of having the courage to fight for his country? That a young man should expose himself to peril only to be court-martialed and convicted upon his return home is incredible. The idea that there is a "right" and "wrong" in war is ludicrous. I cannot believe that we will allow Galley to serve as scapegoat for our guilty consciences...
...surprise of the meet was Currier House. In its first year of competition, the peril from the East finished a strong last with 1268 lengths...