Word: perils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Universities that violate this social compact do so at their peril," he said...
...compact" to which Bok refers in fact does not-exist. This reality may circumscribe a university's independence, but that fact underscores the importance of negotiating the reality honesty. A university guided by the myth of a "compact" really places its independence in peril...
...control in 1970 to counter what councilor Alfred E. Vellucci called "skyrocketing rents." Fraiman told councilors at a special city council meeting Tuesday night that the emergency that led to adoption of rent control has ended. "If you don't hear our cry, you do so at your own peril," he told the councilors, who must seek re-election this fall...
...home office found out they were doing so. Some reporters prefer to remain unarmed. "If you're captured, having a gun is a death warrant," says the Los Angeles Times's Jack Foisie. But the armed correspondents maintain that such ethical hairsplitting is irrelevant to their workaday peril. Says one: "Anyone who can sit in an editorial chair and demand that reporters ride around the Rhodesian countryside unarmed should come here and try it for himself...
Huge jumps in costs are the latest peril of the petro-pinch...