Word: perils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...titled "J' Accuse," in the current issue of his magazine, Podhoretz charges that to many of its critics "only Israel of all the states in the world is required to prove that its very existence-not merely its interest or the security of its borders-is in immediate peril before it can justify the resort to force...
Within three months, however, the promise turned to peril. Several consumer organizations, including Ralph Nader's Health Research Group, went to court seeking a ban on the drug as an "imminent danger." Last week, spurred by reports that 72 Oraflex takers had died and hundreds had been injured in Britain and the U.S., Lilly said that it was recalling all supplies of the drug. Earlier that day Britain's Health Ministry suspended the supply and promotion of the drug for 90 days "on grounds of safety." Meanwhile U.S. officials were considering whether to prosecute the giant international drug...
...Charles Percy of Illinois wondered whether this might take the form of a cutback in the oil production vital to Western economies and a massive withdrawal of Arab money from American banks. So the moment of opportunity for American policymakers in the Middle East is also a moment of peril...
...peril is the more acute because the U.S. has no direct way to affect the other conflict that is shaking the Middle East: the Iran-Iraq war. It is some consolation, though, that except for the U.S., no nation has enough influence on either the Arabs or the Israelis, let alone both, even to try for a Beirut-Palestinian settlement. The Soviets, having failed to keep Syria and the P.L.O. from military defeat at the hands of Israel, have been at least temporarily pushed out of the picture, as attested by Khaddam's presence in Washington rather than Moscow...
...course Jake goes with Magda to Berlin and finds himself in far greater peril than he had imagined. But his rite of passage is not only the literal trek from East back to West but the psychological journey toward true maturity. Experiencing the sense of danger that his father must have felt so often during his exploits, Jake comes face to face with the enemy: "I have blamed the world, my father, mother, uncle, and wife for all my weaknesses. I have wallowed in self-pity." It is time, he decides, to enter the free world...