Word: perils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever-present threat of assassination is "part of the job-the peril of the profession, if you will," said Ford. "There's no way you can get 100% security unless you sit in the White House immunized. But you can't isolate yourself. The job entails certain responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is moving around seeing people and appearing in public...
...past 35 years, every advance in weaponry by the U.S. has caused the Soviet Union to follow suit. Then the hawks cry, "They are trying to pass us! More arms!" So the peril of annihilation escalates and security diminishes. We should be negotiating disarmament, not finding excuses for further delay...
Pechman warned that the real peril of the Reagan program is that it could fuel inflation. He estimated that the continuation of Government services at their current level and the large boost in defense spending that Reagan wants will generate a federal budget deficit of $50 billion in the fiscal year that starts in October. The President's proposed personal and business tax cuts would increase the deficit by another $40 billion, leaving a daunting Government shortfall of $90 billion. Even if Reagan succeeded in persuading Congress to cut $50 billion in expenditures, the deficit would still...
...hate strikes," Union Leader Lech Walesa told a group of journalists last week. That remarkable statement by the organizer of last summer's mass shipyard strike was symptomatic of the conspicuous spirit of conciliation that both labor and government strained to maintain as Poland's year of peril came to a close. Communist Party Boss Stanislaw Kania demonstratively placed wreaths on monuments that had been erected in the northern port cities of Gdansk and Gdynia to honor workers killed by police and troops in 1970. Kania's gesture was of high symbolic importance, since it signified...
This film's premise is simple: contrive, however flimsily, to get Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor into standard comic peril-a barroom fight, a mistaken-identity bank heist, a kangaroo court, a venal prison system, a convicts' rodeo, a speeding car-then watch them wriggle out with their resourceful wit and eloquent body language. Wilder moves with the psychotic serenity of someone who believes everything will turn out O.K.; Pryor trembles with the neurotic certainty that everything has already gone wrong. Wilder's is the fantasy of the liberal do-gooder; Pryor's is the reality...