Word: perils
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...more. By making quantity and quality alone the basis for purchases, and thus excluding the social and moral issues users care about, the University has gone far to repress "the reasoned expression of ideas and arguments." As you say, "universities that violate this social compact do so at their peril...
...faces a problem: it is not that easy to stay on. To obtain a permanent visa, students need some skill that is in short supply in the U.S., a requirement few can meet. The State Department is considering granting asylum to the pro-Shah students, who would be in peril if they went home. Others, without this protection, may follow the course of so many foreigners and slip into the shadowy world of illegal aliens. For all the drawbacks of that way of life, many students would doubtless prefer it to the risk of brutality and oppression in Iran...
...that special library in his little study, they ought to have a book burning. The single six-year term is an idea that appeals to troubled politicians-Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Connally. Most of them never muttered it until they got into some difficulty. Carter may be in political peril, but he need not abandon the Constitution...
...with her analyst (Richard Benjamin) for years, but both are beset by the modern inability to make a genuine commitment. He, it turns out, is a descendant of Dr. Van Helsing, Dracula's old nemesis from the book, play and sequels. The analyst perceives his beloved's peril (three bites from the count and you go over to the undead). But since the setting is New York now, he has some difficulty persuading anyone to care about one well-mannered vampire, whose depredations seem mild compared with all the other forms of urban chaos. In point of fact...
...policy also promises much political pain and peril for Carter. The essence of his program is to strip away the controls that have held the cost of domestically produced crude oil at artificially low levels ever since the postembargo days of 1974. Next month, using Executive authority, he will order a gradual phase-out of the controls so that they will be entirely eliminated by Oct. 1, 1981, when by law they would have expired anyway...