Word: threatened
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...jobs in other countries with more liberal immigration systems, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, or New Zealand. As such, the debate over the H-1B program is not merely a question of “saving American jobs”—these new policies could actually threaten our nation’s long-term economic health and our global authority...
Like a medic tending injured soldiers on a battlefield, she spends her days fielding calls from people who are in financial peril--drowning in credit-card debt or facing adjustable-rate mortgages that threaten to bury them alive. Each week they phone in to Orman's CNBC show for advice or buy one of her nine books, which offer the hope that they might save themselves from the financial hell they've created. Orman rushed out a paperback response to the economic crisis called Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan, which is on the New York Times best-seller list...
...location rarely resonates beyond regional boundaries. But an attack on cricket is a body blow that will not so easily be shrugged off. Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricket star turned politician, scoffed at the Australians when they decided not to play in Pakistan last year. No terrorist would dare threaten the one thing all Pakistanis hold sacred, Khan reasoned, for fear of the inevitable backlash. Sadly and tragically, Khan has now been proved wrong...
...Space constraints threaten the democratic nature of the House system today. The “unprecedented” housing crunch, as Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 termed it, has resulted in a ban on transfer admissions for the next two years. Not only does this limit a potential source of diversity and peer learning for undergraduates, but it also drives House occupants away from their cramped quarters to decamp in inevitably less microcosmic facilities, like student organizations, final clubs, and off-campus venues...
...university expects its students, staff, and neighbors to endure a hiring freeze, a push for early retirement, a tuition increase, and cuts to the custodial staff in addition to the slowdown in Allston. This has not only incited the Allston community but also prompted two Harvard professors to threaten to leave, angered the unions involved in construction and custodial work, and left all involved in a state of clouded confusion about the reality of Harvard’s financial position. If the university expects those affected by this to accept the drastic cuts in so many sectors, they must provide...