Word: pose
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Then there are the really big asteroids -- masses of rock and iron five or ten miles across that hit every 10 million to 100 million years. The half- milers are bad enough, but these giant ones pose a threat to the entire planet. It was such an asteroid (or an equivalent-size comet) that many scientists believe caused the extinction of dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. The primary evidence, discovered by the late physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Walter, a geologist, is a layer of the element iridium laid down in sedimentary rock at about the time...
...pose the question to a white European visiting New York City, and brace yourself for a surprise. He will inform you that black Harlem is one of the city's main attractions; that its 330 years echo with history, beauty and drama; that its imposing, if often scorched, architecture tells tales of the exuberant black metropolis that flourished in the 1920s; that in no other New York City district can you find the vitality and graciousness of Harlem on a , good day. Maybe, too, the foreigner wants to brag to friends back home that he saw Harlem and survived. Sure...
...Soviet Union, the practical advantage of permitting such political experiments must be balanced against the threat they pose. Poland will test to the limits Moscow's professed willingness to let each country design its own version of socialism...
...next day the school received a bomb threat, which turned out to be a hoax. Then, when Rogers did not receive her contract renewal on the same day as other faculty members, she fired off an angry letter to the parents of her students, saying she did not pose a risk to the children's safety. She was later barred from the campus but continues to collect her paychecks and to assist a substitute teacher with lesson plans. Many San Diegans, angered by the way Rogers was treated, accused the school of gross ingratitude and cowardice. Others argued that Rogers...
...Rogers was offered a new contract for the next school year, but she has yet to accept the deal, partly because it makes her return to the campus contingent on a "substantial" determination by the Naval Investigative Service, the FBI and the San Diego police that she does not pose a security threat. "Does Sharon feel betrayed? I think she does," says a friend. "Twelve years of her life she's given to that school...