Word: perilously
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Striding majestically across the savanna, the African elephant is an unmistakable symbol of power and strength. As recently as the 1970s, its numbers were so great that some conservationists worried about overpopulation. Now the elephant is involved in a desperate struggle to survive, and the reason for its peril is one of its glories: the huge creature's magnificent tusks of ivory. Since the early 1980s, the price of ivory has surged from $25 per lb. to $80 per lb. As a result, growing bands of wily and ruthless poachers have taken to hunting down elephants illegally all across Africa...
...Catholics' reluctance to follow Church teaching is seen in their reaction, or lack thereof, to the January decision by the Reagan Administration to restrict the number of Southeast Asian refugees allowed into the country. It's no coincidence that this policy shift comes amidst nationalist cries over the "Yellow Peril" in education, real estate ownership and economic competitiveness. If American Catholics were to recognize that every-one deserves an equal chance at the freedoms and opportunities that the United States can provide, pressure against such a policy would be enormous...
...potential to produce the most dramatic historic shift since George Marshall and Harry Truman helped build the Western Alliance as a bulwark of democracy. But as the Soviets play the politics of da -- saying yes to issue after issue raised by the Reagan Administration -- the U.S. seems in peril of letting its wary "not yet" begin to sound like nyet...
...Supreme Court hears the case of a "macho" woman accountant. Was she denied promotion because of sexual stereotypes obliging women to be sweeter? -- High- speed police chases -- critics call them a public peril...
...called him a "nigger" is now supportive. Scott's superior, Zalas, says both Cicero and Scott are maturing. "He's going to grow into a fine officer," he says. Scott still does not want to live in Cicero -- at least not so long as he considers his family in peril. But he is determined to work there and, in the process, win over those who hate or fear him because of his race...