Word: perils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acknowledge that even admidst Peril of financial Hardship facing our city and the new Threat of Nuclear War facing the City and the World, we as yet have such Abundance and such Peace as to rejoice." Duehay stated in the proclamation...
...President who ignores those distant rumbles and internal mutterings and fails to take corrective action can find himself in peril. It is a delicate time for the Reagan presidency...
...great nephews and cousins, long inbred, many of them descended from domesticated animals turned loose in the 1930's, when forage was scarce on the Dust Bowl plains. They are being stalked here in Colorado's Piceance Basin and other states because they have been adjudged a peril to the Western range. Since 1971, when free-roaming horses were put under tight federal protection, they have been multiplying with Malthusian consequences, gobbling up valuable sheep and cattle forage and leaving the range threadbare. Complains Colorado Rancher Dean Burke: "The wild horse is a pest. He has been eating...
...influential architects of the past 30 years--work best, if they work at all, on paper. Scorning real buildings, many architects continue to play with theory at the expense of practice. And, as Wolfe points out in this dandy little book, they do so at their--and especially our--peril...
Despite the ever rising level of violence in Iran, Washington feels the Khomeini regime is in no serious peril. "There is no evidence that it has lost either popular support or control over the mechanism of government," said one source. Banisadr and Rajavi were more optimistic. From their headquarters in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, they announced a program for the transitional government they hope to form "when Khomeini falls and before new elections are held." Predictably, Banisadr would be President, and Rajavi Prime Minister. Boasted a Mujahedin leader: "We are already a state within a state." -By Henry Mutter. Reported...