Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't think I'd be safe in the lab," Siegel says. "He asked me, "Why don't you take physics, where the most you ever work with is 12 volts of electricity?" I understood his concerns, but the proper response is to look to solutions...
...erode the University's insulation from "outside pressures that would impose an orthodoxy of 'safe' ideas or use the University for ends other than learning or the pursuit of truth...
Until the President indicates what cuts he might choose, only two predictions seem safe: 1) whatever reductions he recommends will arouse bitter resistance from some of the best-entrenched lobbies in Washington (one senior Administration official comments wryly, "The starting presumption is that every one of the options will be politically impossible"); and 2) even if all the cuts now rumored could be enacted, they probably would not accomplish the Administration's goal of cutting the deficit roughly in half, to about $100 billion, by fiscal 1988 (planners no longer even talk about achieving a balanced budget during...
...rebels were led by Abu Mousa, a former commander in the Bekaa Valley, who was upset over the promotion of two comrades. Syria's Assad, eager to seize control of the Palestinian movement, fanned the revolt by giving Abu Mousa's troops financial aid and a safe haven in eastern Lebanon. "The Syrians want Arafat's head," recently explained Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s chief political strategist. "They want to remove the symbol of the revolution because their real aim is to have the P.L.O. as a political card in Assad's pocket...
...conquering style in the arts, however, is safe from a return of the vanquished, often dressed as an avantgarde. Today spartan modernism has been surprised in its sleep by a postmodern taste for ornament and the revival of moribund styles. Partly as a result, some artists are garnishing the edge again. Trompe l'oeil frames, tutti-frutti borders and jigsaw-cut silhouettes are multiplying in galleries that not long ago featured only trim metal runners...