Word: threatened
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...case also has prompted outrage in local Latino communities and led Maryland congressional representatives to threaten a challenge to the $3 billion in aid the U.S. sends Israel every year. While it?s unlikely that the issue will seriously disrupt the U.S.-Israel relationship, it has spurred efforts in Israel to repeal the 1977 law that forbids the extradition of Israelis to stand trial abroad. One American for whom Sheinbein?s plea bargain may be particularly painful: Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison after his conviction in 1985 on charges of spying for Israel...
Given this protracted struggle, Americans of goodwill might be excused for supposing that some genuine scientific or philosophical dispute motivates this issue: Is evolution speculative and ill founded? Does evolution threaten our ethical values or our sense of life's meaning? As a paleontologist by training, and with abiding respect for religious traditions, I would raise three points to alleviate these worries...
Rising interest rates helped bring that about. In Wall Street's perverse logic, higher rates, reflecting a robust economy--employment figures last Friday were strong--and the threat of inflation, are seen as negative because they threaten to slow the economy longer term and put off Internet profits further into the future...
...think in Denise's case she was put under a lot of pressure by people in the black community who felt that her candidacy for city council could threaten Ken Reeves," Koocher said, referring to incumbent City Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves...
...Boston as in other cities, the joint ATF-police teams took a low-key approach. They asked a few questions and explained the new laws. They did not openly threaten dealers with investigation or prosecution, but the message was there. Of the city's 99 dealers, 82 voluntarily turned over their license or did not renew their application. "I think that tells you that bottom line, maybe they weren't complying," says Paul Evans, Boston's police commissioner. "They couldn't withstand the scrutiny, so they're out of business...