Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, was likely to be 8 to 4 in favor of finding some violations. The defection of two Democrats is not a mortal wound, but if the same percentage abandons Wright when the entire House votes, his hold on the speakership would be in peril. Democrats had been urging Wright to launch a pre-emptive defense. Says a House leadership aide: "We were being procedural nerds with our pants drawn up to the armpits saying, 'We have to wait for the report, we have to wait for the report.' Meanwhile the leaks were hurting...
What's worse, it penalizes those who respect ethical distinctions. Mike Doonesbury and I follow our consciences at our financial peril...
...before did. Yeah, failure teaches you things." Luce says, "Maybe I'm calmer. Friends say I seem more mature. Maybe just tired." She and some partners heard the beat of great wings when they were cuffed by the edge of a large avalanche at the Khumbu Icefall. Being in peril, she says, "sharpens your senses for life...
...Bostonians need not despair. As the city and the state argue over just how the rat peril should be met, the state has hired William B. Jackson, the ultimate rat terminator, to deal with the problem. A former biology professor, Jackson, 62, now runs his own consulting business in Osseo, Mich., and is one of the nation's foremost experts on rodent control. Working for the United Nations, he has battled rats around the world, from Indonesia to Brazil. Billed by the Boston media as the "rat czar" and the "Pied Piper," Jackson is devising a strategy to save Boston...
...orgy of poaching driven by record prices for ivory threatens the animals with extinction. -- An oil spill poses the first major peril to the pristine Antarctic...