Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airline a week in advance to find out the departure day. The price: $299 round trip New York-London, vs. $764 for regular economy class. Or, for the same price, the passenger can buy a ticket on the day of departure and "stand by," hoping for a seat. The peril: none may be available. The second is APEX (Advanced Purchase Excursion), which must be bought three or four weeks in advance. The price: $399. The advantage: a confirmed reservation. Domestically, there is an absolute plethora of fares. The Big Four?United, American, TWA and Eastern?all offer a Super Saver...
...world's industrial democracies, the great peril is that they will fall into a new recession before most of them have fully recovered from the last one. Hoping to avoid such a tumble, the leaders of seven* nations have journeyed four times in the past three years to much-heralded economic summits, where they have issued ringing, sometimes even rambunctious, declarations about their resolve to cure ills. So far, they have been unable to solve the multiple problems of slow growth, threatening levels of inflation and high unemployment. Last week, as the leaders of the Seven returned home from...
...burst from the ovary, the cervical mucus will be too sticky for the entry of sufficient sperm into the uterus, and the lining of the uterus will not prepare to receive the fertilized egg. Indeed, hormonal disorders at any point in the sequence make it so fraught with peril for eggs and sperm that perhaps a third of all potential pregnancies end at the time of implantation. As Dr. Albert Decker of the New York Fertility Research Foundation puts it, "Pregnancy is not simple. Women do not get pregnant at the drop...
...months" and would need "tremendous skill" to avoid either another surge in prices or a quick slump back into recession, or perhaps both. Although Miller opposed his colleagues at the Fed on the need for another discount rate increase, he is persuaded that inflation is a more immediate peril than recession; he recommended that Congress postpone the 25?-an-hour increase in the minimum wage (now $2.65) that is set for next...
...does not come cheap: a major company that calls in an agency for a thorough study of its security needs may expect to pay $100,000 or so. Both Burns and Pinkerton's typically begin such a consultation with a "threat analysis," aimed at determining the degree of peril to which the company and its high-level executives are exposed. After that study, which may take as long as six months if the client has overseas branches, the advisers draw up a plan that outlines exactly how the company should react in various emergency and hostage situations, and designates...