Word: perils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...none too soon, for by Nixon's own measure the premier problem of unemployment has reached the peril point. Because unemployment rates ranged over 5% in the Democratic years of 1961 through 1964, Nixon regards that as "the critical number." During his televised "conversation" last week with four TV journalists, which he handled advantageously (see THE PRESS), Nixon carefully stayed within his own defensive perimeter by observing that the average unemployment for 1970 was "approximately 4.9%"-a figure that he conceded was "too high." In fact, the monthly figure has already gone considerably higher: the Labor Department announced last...
...leadership to curb a growing feeling in the U.S. that Europe is fat and prosperous enough to protect itself. In the view of all Western European leaders, a swift, major, unilateral U.S. troop cutback?anything under the present 185,000 G.I.s in West Germany is often cited as the peril point?would be immensely damaging. Several Eastern European statesmen privately agree; they point out that the Russians would be far harder to cope with in the absence of U.S. forces on the Continent. "On the road toward a more stable system of security," Brandt told TIME, "the necessity...
RICHARD NIXON'S strategy of Vietnamization faces a new period of peril and testing. The President has declared that he will have ended active U.S. participation in the war by Election Day 1972; indeed, public opinion in the U.S. leaves him no alternative if he is to survive politically. The catch is that as fewer and fewer American soldiers remain, they become more and more vulnerable-as does the survival of South Viet...
...basic right. But von Stade speaks of the "balance of males versus females" at Harvard, and of including women "at the expense of males." He seems to see education as inherently the property and privilege of males, a sanctuary that can be invaded by women only at men's peril. Just as Harvard's supposed institutional neutrality breaks down under close examination, so does the supposed neutrality of knowledge it self...
...From a sense of peril narrowly escaped, Israel deduces the central theme of its policy: never to return to the situation of vulnerability and peril," he said. The crowd, including an overflow of 1000 in Memorial Hall, broke into heavy applause...