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...possible resignation were running wild, initially sending the Dow Jones industrial average up a startling 25 points by midday, the Senators were grim. Explained Tower later: "There was considerable concern that the President did not really understand the mood of the Senate, that he did not fully comprehend the peril he faced if he came to trial here...
...public would stand for it." That judgment was made in other circumstances, and is surely subject to change as public attitudes toward Nixon become clearer in the days ahead. But there is no gainsaying that Nixon's new status as a private citizen puts him in grave peril...
...would have wanted it said, I believe, that she well knew the pressures of pride and vanity, the sting of bitterness and defeat, the gray days of national peril and personal anguish. But she clung to the confident expectation that men could fashion their own tomorrows if they could only learn that yesterday can be neither relived nor revised...
...current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet. Temperatures have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time. But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries-the U.S., Canada and Australia -global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare...
Neither Japan nor the European nations have done more than start studies on VC, but American authorities are moving to reduce the risks from the plastic peril. The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued emergency regulations reducing allowable VC levels to 50 parts per million. Whether this is adequate to provide long-term protection for plastics workers remains to be seen. An industry-sponsored study has shown that when mice are exposed to those levels, they develop angiosarcoma...