Word: perils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conditions, the Administration kept open its options on the future of covert operations in Nicaragua and impressed on Congress a fresh spirit of bipartisanship. "There is a new willingness to look at the problem together," said one State Department official. That may be because both sides face political peril. Republicans run the risk of being blamed for increased U.S. involvement in the murky politics of Central America, Democrats of being blamed for a rebel victory if they block aid to the Salvadoran government...
...ballots in two-thirds of the states. The law was designed to ensure that presidential candidates would seek support nationwide and come to office with broad backing. If Shagari or any other candidate fails to meet that requirement, the political horse trading could go on for months-at great peril to the country's hard-won stability...
...Washington Psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Holmes as saying that Diana had an 80% chance of becoming ill. On his Holmes-Rahe scale, which rates such stressful occurrences as marriage (50), trouble with in-laws (29) and change of financial state (38), Diana scored "an alarming 417." This put her in peril, the doctor was quoted as saying, of ailments ranging from "a prolonged cold to an obsessive-compulsive disorder such as the need to see your shoes precisely arranged...
...incessant, however, a great deal more than a traffic management problem is involved. The flouting of basic rules of the road leaves deep dents in the social mood. Innocent drivers and pedestrians pay a repetitious price in frustration, inconvenience and outrage, not to mention a justified sense of mortal peril. The significance of red-light running is magnified by its high visibility. If hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, then furtiveness is the true outlaw's salute to the force of law-and-order. The red-light runner, however, shows no respect whatever for the social...
...window of vulnerability" to such attack, Reagan believes, extends from to 1987 But we need not despair, the Administration assures us, because, for only 35 billion, we can build the MX missile system, which will be safe from the new Red Peril Like its predecessor the "missile gap," however, the window of vulnerability is illusory. The Soviets, like us, could not rationally count on "winning" a nuclear war in one strike, so they are no more likely than we are to launch...