Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end, television network executives and sponsors were still squabbling over ground rules, and CBS threatened not to telecast the debate, apparently because a correspondent was rejected as a panelist. All three networks said they might not cover the debate unless audience reaction shots are permitted. A court challenge this week by minor party candidates also could threaten the debate...
...free enterprise system and is more of a fiscal conservative than many Democratic politicians, he would intervene more actively in the economy than Ford has done. He seems willing to support limited job-subsidy programs, more spending, easier money, and stand-by wage and price controls should inflation threaten to run away again...
...government's recent concessions to black militancy, like the decision to allow Soweto residents to purchase outright more than half of the township's houses (for about $1,500 apiece). They were there simply to work and be left alone. When the activists began to threaten them for refusing to strike, threw a couple of Zulu workers off a train and actually set fire to one of the Zulu hostels, the migrant workers erupted in fury-and Soweto's "Zulu...
...nations justify torture? The most common argument is that the practice is an unfortunate but indispensable means of combatting lawless elements that threaten the security of the state, especially terrorist extremists. The argument draws some support from the reckless brutality of recent terrorist movements and from the massive Communist threat-at least as it is perceived in many countries. "Nobody wants to be called a torturer," says one senior Argentine officer. "The word stinks of cowardice. But nobody ever gave away important information because a gentleman came up to him and said: 'Please tell me what you know...
Furthermore, Saint Laurent's stiff, billowing materials-though more flattering than the currently fashionable figure-revealing knit fabrics-threaten to engulf the small and puff up the large woman. The extravagant ornamentation and expensive bulk will have to be pared away by the manufacturers who will make unauthorized, mass-produced copies. But, as New York Designer Diane von Furstenberg noted, "Duplicated, it will look cheap...