Word: pose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very people employed by my tax dollars to create a high "quality of life" are the ones who pose a danger to both my civil rights and my own well-being. The NYPD and the many others like it throughout the nation purvey America's most treacherous kind of violence...
Browner reacted to critics on both sides of the spectrum--those who questioned the costliness these new standards would pose to industry and those who charged that the standards were arbitrary or did not go far enough...
...purchase and use of halogen lamps in spite of the fact that no suitable alternative has been suggested by the administration. Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans, refusing to outright ban the lights, wrote in an e-mail message, "We will tell entering students that halogen floor lamps pose a potential fire hazard and that students need to use incandescent or fluorescent lamps in freshman dormitories...
...threat volcanoes pose is nothing new, but popular appreciation of it is. The warning bell this time is being sounded not by scientists but by the entertainment industry. Two weeks ago, Universal Pictures released its heavily promoted volcano film, Dante's Peak, and in April, 20th Century Fox will release its more prosaically named Volcano. abc television will air a documentary on the world's most dangerous volcanoes next week, followed by a drama about an eruption at a West Coast ski resort...
...will tell entering students that halogen floor lamps pose a potential fire hazard and that students need to use incandescent or fluorescent lamps in freshman dormitories," she wrote in an e-mail message...