Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What concerns us is the manner in which Secretary Watt gets his press. His policies, and those of President Reagan, are nothing short of a national disgrace. The rough 'n ready, let's strip-mine-America-today policies they have advocated pose the most serious threat to the future of a habitable America this side of nuclear arms. And the announcement last week that the Administration was reversing field on those policies and had decided to ban mineral development on national lands looks increasingly like a ruse. In fact, the great turn around may actually make it easier for industry...
However, Bernard Roth, a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford who would be Umnov's host, said yesterday the State Department concerns were "misguided" and "farfetched," Roth added, "there's nothing be could see here" at Stanford that would pose a significant security risk to the United States...
...meter run Harvard also suffers from a lack of experienced competitors. Gabler has began training for this distance recently to fill in the Harvard hole, but she will not pose much of a threat to Princeton's Beny Newsam, who run away with first place last weekend...
Harvard record-holder Liane Rozzell--who returned to competition only recently--has a shot at taking high jump honors this afternoon, but Princeton's Sarah Chang will pose a stiff challenge Last weekend the lanky and lean Tiger was the tri-meet's only triple winner, taking the hurdles long jump and high jump...
...doubtful that the parole board granted Jack Abbott his freedom strictly on the basis of his literary talent; presumably it also believed he would not pose any meaningful threat to society. Norman Mailer simply acted as an advocate, marshaling the facts and arguing them in favor of Abbott's release...