Word: threatened
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...decade, or for as long as the economy continues to steam along without a sharp recession. "The technology revolution is engulfing the globe," says Sinai. But pockets of low employment, and the gap between educational haves and have-nots, will also endure in the U.S. and always threaten to widen. That will remain a cause for concern even as the upsurge in jobs remains a cause for celebration...
...Tutsis overflows into Zaire, the refugees' situation is rapidly deteriorating. Last month, U.N. officials touring the area visited a Zairian refugee camp with 400,000 inhabitants and found not a single well of fresh water. Such scarcity of food and water, as well as outbreaks of cholera, threaten the displaced political refugees, 100,000 more of whom are predicted to return to Rwanda in the next few weeks...
Above all, for a lot of people the wonder drugs don't work any wonders. Estimates of how many patients show no improvement or can't tolerate the side effects vary from 15% to about 33%. For them, the promising developments all around only threaten to deepen their isolation. They worry about being left behind, artifacts of an earlier stage of the epidemic. "I've taken them all, and I've failed them all," says Ron Wilmot, 46, a Vietnam veteran whose weakened condition led him two years ago to sell his half of a San Francisco real estate firm...
Campaign members are especially concerned that a termination of the protected status in Cambridge will threaten the city's diversity...
...takes fewer puffs to get high, thus cutting down on damage to the respiratory system, for example. On the other hand, stronger pot and higher kids lead to more reckless driving and car accidents. It is true that smoking pot is less harmful than heavy drinking and does not threaten one's life, as do addictions to harder drugs. Proselytical pot smokers love to point out that a fatal overdose would require, say, 40 lbs. of grass smoked over a period...