Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Young men today are turning to hazardous life-endangering sports such as hang-gliding and mountain climbing as a substitute for the wars of the Middle Ages, which perpetually fulfilled the male need to tempt fate. President Reagan should be applauded for his valiant and obsessive efforts to save the lives of these misguided daredevils by taking them out of their mountain-climbing boots and trying to put them back into combat boots...
...could soon be taken over by conventional weapons. Joining in the challenge, Healey questioned the overall U.S. assessment of superpower balance. The U.S., Healey claimed, was well ahead in the number of warheads, and in any case, he noted, "I doubt that the disparity is such that it would tempt either side to start a war." Moreover, Healey said, the U.S. armaments program, especially the cruise missile, was bound to provoke the Soviets into matching the Americans, thus actually quickening the arms race. Like Voigt, he urged less reliance on nuclear weapons and an upgrading of conventional forces, an effort...
...effectiveness of detainee cannot be measured in absolute terms, Cap Weinberger not with sinoding. Some weapons--and some theatric--can prove destabilizing. It is probably unwise, for example, that the U.S. should seek rough parity with the Soviet Union, eschewing new weapons systems that might either frighten or tempt the Soviets...
Prins predicts his company will continue prospering despite the twin threats of increased competition and the prospect that falling gasoline prices and a strengthening economy will tempt passengers to drive their cars instead of taking the bus. One reason for Prins' optimism: "As the economy picks up, more people are planning to take tours." Indeed, Jefferson's 1983 tour bookings are already up 80% over last year's, and its European jaunts are almost sold...
...more marginal. At the same time, the complex technology of the nuclear age raises the danger of an automaticity that might elude rational control. For if one side should destroy the retaliatory force of its adversary, it would be in a position to impose its terms. That prospect could tempt the intended victim to undertake a "preemptive" first strike-or launch its weapons on warning. Mutual fear could turn a crisis into a catastrophe. Proponents of arms control thus saw it as their immediate objective to reduce the incentives and possibilities of surprise attack...