Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instead to retire. In that case, he will need to pick a successor if the machine is to hold together. The trouble is, there is no strong candidate acceptable to all factions. In the manner of most absolute rulers, Daley has consistently chopped down all those who rose to threaten...
...last February, the writer has uncovered one such KGB plot that could have led to his arrest on treason charges. In the following article written expressly for TIME-the first he has published since coming to the West-Solzhenitsyn provides a detailed example of how the secret police can threaten the lives of Soviet dissidents...
...begun. The U.S. Savings and Loan League estimates that in April S and Ls suffered a savings outflow of $350 million, v. a net inflow of $831 million in April 1973. Ultimately, the process could bring home construction to a virtual standstill by drying up mortgage money, and could threaten the solvency of the thrift institutions themselves...
...spend it on the television sets and tape recorders that he makes, doubts spread as to whether anyone had really won any thing worthwhile. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka warned that the big pay raises could set off a vicious wage-price spiral that would boomerang against consumers and threaten Japan's competitiveness in world markets. The workers themselves, who had gone so far as to stage a two-day transportation strike to press their demands, concede gloomily that most of their gains have al ready been wiped out by Japan's virulent inflation. Living costs so far this...
Already battered by soaring inflation and a declining economy, the nation's housing industry recently has been jolted by another blow: skyscraping interest rates that are drying up mortgage money and threaten to depress construction even further. A continuing slide in housing would seriously diminish chances for an economic upturn later this year, and last week the Administration attempted a rescue. President Nixon announced a series of steps that would pump $10.3 billion in cash and credits into the sagging industry...