Word: perils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influence the outside world. It does mean that they should exert an influence by fostering the reasoned expression of ideas and arguments put forward by their individual members and not by taking institutional steps to inflict sanctions on others. Universities that violate this social compact do so at their peril. They cannot expect to remain free from interference if they insist on using their economic leverage in an effort to impose their own standards on the behavior of other organizations...
...write simply to say that he does not speak for me Mr. Pattullo apparently thinks of exclusive homosexuality as a lifestyle which some are in danger of choosing if it is made to appear the fashion Against this Peril he says. "But we see exclusive homosexuality as a disability and believe that society should be structured to encourage heterosexual development." Several sentences below encouragement of heterosexual development gives way to" ...it is reasonable for the majority to want to shape society to discourage it." I do not think society fails to make clear its position on heterosexuality...
...opposed. Now, we call the brutal dictators in Argentina our friends, and slap in the face a Nicaraguan government seeking to end U.S. hostility and ease the violent tensions in all of Central America Reagan and his policy-makers are so determined to preserve democratic ideals from the Soviet peril that they have forgotten what those ideals are. If the U.S. wants to give the world a choice between democracy and communism, our blurring of the distinction in Latin America does nothing to make that choice any easier...
...resolutions on Capitol Hill are the small tip of a very large iceberg. In part, the Senators who favor the motions are responding to an unprecedented flood of teach-ins, referendums, legislative proposals, letter-writing campaigns, petitions, and books addressing the peril of nuclear war. The groups involved in the movement include such longtime disarmament organizations as SANE and the Union of Concerned Scientists. But with them are a host of fledgling organizations: Physicians for Social Responsibility, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, the Business Alert to Nuclear War, Artists...
...about the substance but about the arithmetic of the impeachment vote. He was a man awake during his own nightmare. His vaunted self-discipline had not prevented the debacle and may even have caused it. He had suppressed the instincts that would normally have alerted him to his peril; he had been sustained on the fatal course by associates who subordinated policy to procedure and who were at a loss as to how to react when the procedures miscarried...