Word: perilously
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...that the Communists have not been held accountable for violations they have committed. Aquino made her position clear at midweek during her address before 400 soldiers at Camp Aguinaldo. "Send this message out to all our troops so that none may be misled to relax their vigilance to their peril and that of the people they are charged to protect," she told the troops. "The new armed forces will resume operations against the insurgents. We shall have law-and-order throughout the country...
...only way for European countries to insulate themselves against that peril, TIME's economists agreed, is to boost domestic demand and become less reliant on exports. The onus will be on West Germany, Europe's most powerful economy, to take the initiative. Last year the Germans resisted pressure to cut interest rates and lift demand by promising that strong growth was already in the pipeline. Further stimulus, German officials argued, would raise the risk of an overheated economy and renewed inflation. But West Germany's 2.75% growth rate in 1986 fell short of expectations as the high-flying mark...
Everyone knows that sports teams must have nicknames, but selecting an appropriate one is fraught with peril. Alabama, for instance, may be proud of the Crimson Tide, but it sounds like a bloodbath or a serious algae problem. Notre Dame's famous jocks are ossified as the Fighting Irish, though Hibernian-American athletes are about as rare in South Bend as they are on the Boston Celtics. Nothing exposed the nickname crisis more starkly than the 1982 NCAA basketball championship game played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya...
...babe. All this domestic flak will die down, the press will retreat when the PR shock troops open fire. But the Freedom Fight is in peril, and every true American must join battle...
Ecologists have been working for years to improve the quality of the Rhine's water, but that project has now been set back at least a decade. Indeed, as the bad news mounted, even the river's legend seemed in peril. In a front-page cartoon, the German weekly Die Zeit showed the mythic Lorelei looking lost and forlorn. The reason: chemicals were making the maiden's hair fall...