Word: threatened
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Twenty-five years later, Harvard and others anxiously await the Court’s decision—expected this month—on a pair of affirmative action cases that threaten to overturn the precedent Harvard helped...
Declaring that Saddam Hussein had ties to international terrorism and was hiding biological and chemical weapons, President Bush ignored strenuous European objections to military action. He invoked a new doctrine of preemptive strikes against nations that threaten American security...
...Iraqi people have been liberated, but lawlessness and radical Shiite clerics threaten to overwhelm progress toward the development of a stable government...
...societal level, when we demand government protection from the risks we’re all afraid of—risks that hit our emotional hot buttons even though they may not necessarily be the ones that threaten us the most—time and money devoted to these lesser risks aren’t available to protect us from the bigger ones, and some of the people left exposed to those big ones...
Last November, Bok wrote in the Chronicle that “out-of-scale” presidential compensation can threaten academic integrity...