Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story sticks because it is the story of every year--courage, skill, hubris and the best-laid plans brought low by nature, which does not care. The amazing thing is that we care; that we continue to be concerned with those in peril on the sea; that we continue to be interested in one another as a story and keep at the story of ourselves until, maybe, one day we'll get it right. The story of the year? It might have been the moment we looked up with that sweet old eagerness and hope and told each other...
...history of war movies--his astonishing re-creation of the Omaha Beach landing--he forces us to wonder if any cause can justify such carnage. It is a measure of his growth as a questioning humanist that the rest of his tense, brilliantly wrought epic puts men in mortal peril as they attempt to rescue a soldier whose life is no more valuable than theirs, then shows us how honor can be wrested from absurdity by common decency and modest dutifulness...
...Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald's combined. There would be more than 1,000 Howard Johnson restaurants and 500 motor lodges. Yet after Johnson's death in 1972, the company lost its raison d'etre. The restaurants became obsolete; the food quality deteriorated. You underestimate the clientele at your peril. The late restaurateur Joe Baum used to say, "There is no victory over a customer...
...sure, there are children in real peril. Many kids are living in unstable homes amid conditions that truly threaten brain development. What is more, the growing strains on the child-care system, especially since welfare reform, give child-development experts particular cause for worry. Without meaningful intervention before they reach school age, neglected or abused children may struggle with learning for the rest of their lives. "If they're not getting the nurturing they need in the earliest years, their synaptic development shuts down, which in turn shuts down the foundations for learning and being a human being," says Matthew...
...helpful to have sex celebrated and sexuality celebrated in a positive way," she said. "If we as women don't affirm our sexuality, we are in danger of losing it. It is in peril...