Word: threatened
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...future of weapons of mass destruction: "Now pointed at Japan, North Korea's missiles will one day target the United States and China. The missiles of Pakistan fallen into the hands of fundamentalists will threaten first India, then Europe. Those of Hezbollah - in other words, Iran - that now target Israel will one day be pointed at Cairo, Riyadh, Algiers, Tunis, Casablanca, Istanbul, then at Rome, Madrid, London and Paris. Should the battle lines harden and the country be threatened with annihilation, China's missiles could one day target Japan and the United States...
...This finding will officially end the era of denial on global warming.' ED MARKEY, head of the House climate-change committee, on the EPA's conclusion that greenhouse gases threaten public health...
...words rather than deeds, on the global economic stage by taking a step toward making the yuan a global currency. "A lot of this is symbolic," says Citigroup's Chua. "China wants to be a player." And one sure way to be a player, as everyone knows, is to threaten to quit the game...
...this timeframe, Nicholas said. Red line trains bypassed the Harvard Square station for those two hours, a transit worker said, and all Harvard Yard gates along Mass. Ave from Johnston Gate to the Widener gate were also closed, according to Harvard security personnel. The last bomb scare to threaten University property occurred in February 2000, when a phoned-in bomb threat and reports of a suspicious smell caused the evacuation of two Harvard Extension School buildings. —Staff writer Emily J. Hogan can be reached at ejhogan@fas.harvard.edu...
...German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she does not want to be bogged down by "artificial discussions" of fiscal stimulus, and like many of her peers would prefer to focus on fashioning a new regulatory structure to make sure the excesses and abuses that precipitated the crisis don't threaten the global financial system again. Other European leaders have also voiced skepticism over new discretionary-spending plans, arguing in part that the social safety net in Europe will automatically increase spending to handle much of the downturn...