Word: imperiling
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Though AT&T officials have argued for years that the Justice Department's assiduous efforts to break up their company would imperil the smooth and efficient functioning of the entire system, the claim has never had much validity. Nearly 20% of the nation's telephone subscribers are served by independently owned and operated companies that are not part of the Bell System, yet the quality of their service is virtually identical. Having now shaken hands with the Government on a divestiture plan that could bring enormous benefits to AT&T, Ma Bell must see to it that such...
...Protective Shelter system for the MX missile, a bold act which opens the way to a proper assessment of the entire strategic posture. His improvement in command and control will provide the basis for a "launch under attack" capability. This will insure against some unexpected Soviet breakthrough which would imperil the other two legs of our strategic deterent, i.e., a breakthrough in anti-submarine warfare or a breakthrough that would imperil the survival of our strategic aircraft. His proposal to develop both the MX and the Trident-II missile calls for further analysis, however, since the Trident-II could just...
Those pressure tactics not only threaten the review's attempt to acknowledge formally that the current system has not fostered diversity among the journal's membership. They also imperil the autonomy of leadership of the review itself; such meddling is particularly in appropriate among students who deserve respect for their ability to make their own decisions...
...formidable political force in Britain, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands. It threatens, if unchecked, to make NATO a useless concept, to strain beyond tolerance the deep but subtle ties that link America with the continent it has twice fought to defend in this bloody century, and to imperil the very ability of the West to stand, free and united, against the encroachments and designs of the Soviet Union...
When the Afro-Am executive committee turned down her request--a move she said would "imperil" her $77,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant--Wright filed a complaint with the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EOEC) and threatened to sue the University, charging that it had discriminated against her on the basis of race...