Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political crisis faded away last week. In five days of talks at the presidential palace in Lagos, political leaders from the East and West argued bitterly over the election that returned Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's Northern-based alliance to power-and led the East to threaten secession. But tempers cooled. The regional leaders recognized that the alternatives to compromise were chaos and the destruction of Africa's most populous country...
...perhaps understands less well is that as France grows more and more interdependent economically, his declarations of political and military independence are likely to carry less weight. While France may well emerge as the leader of an integrated Europe, De Gaulle will no longer be able convincingly to threaten a French withdrawal if he does not get his way on a specific matter. As long as only the industrial half of the E.E.C. was forging ahead, full economic union was impossible. With the addition of the agricultural half in 1967, the ties that bind the Six will draw so tight...
...change of attitude is taking place on the international scene that has potentially vast consequences for business men in the U.S. and in many other countries. In some parts of the world particularly Western Europe, there is growing concern that heavy investments by U.S. industry threaten to dominate whole economies. U.S. businessmen last year increased their direct investments abroad by $3.4 billion to a record $41 billion. This year the rate is growing even faster, and the ubiquitous Yankee investors are drawing more and more cries of "dollar imperialism...
Teetery Credit. A decade after the Revolution, Britain was still denying U.S. ships access to the West Indies and still treating the new nation, economically, as a colony. The policy of Secretary of State Jefferson was to threaten counterembargoes and demand concessions. Hamilton believed that conciliation and appeasement were the only hope. Outtalked in Cabinet meetings, Hamilton set about negotiating with the British on his own. He justified his interference on the ground that the then teetery credit rating of the U.S. economy required rapprochement with the British at virtually any cost...
...blunders of the Project, I think this was the most absurd and unnecessary. If the members of the Project really wanted to help the Negroes of Missippi, the most obvious mistake they could make would be to threaten the white Mississippians to force them to be cooperative. Mississippi's race problem will not be solved by pitting the nation against Mississippi with techniques of violence...