Word: threatened
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...toll in Iraq climbs daily. Corruption investigations are metastasizing on the Hill. Politicians aspiring to higher office jockey more aggressively for broader support. And, as outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admonished his final G-7 conference in London Friday, increasing budget deficits and unsteady trade imbalances, unchecked, may threaten the global economic livelihood in the long...
...annual migration of the monarch butterfly from Montreal to Mexico's Michoacán state in his ultralight plane. Gutierrez, 44, spent six years planning his 10-week trip and securing funding for a documentary about it in order to draw attention to the logging and pesticide use that threaten the monarch. Gutierrez overcame hardships insects don't face--like understanding foreign air-traffic controllers and fixing an overheated engine. But, now back on the ground, he says he kept the mood light. "I felt more a butterfly than...
...this internal uproar spark the downfall of the Club? Did Martha, Abby, and Mary threaten to reveal The Club’s secrets? Or perhaps The Club’s death was inevitable—a species that could not survive due to its failure to adapt? The answer remains a mystery...
...tradition, TIME's Men and Women of the Year are those who have most influenced history, for good or ill, in the previous 12 months. By that standard, Rabin, Arafat, Mandela and De Klerk might be perceived as odd choices. Neither peacemaking deal is complete. Extremists on all sides threaten to destroy the arrangements, which look at times like fragile shelters being nailed together in a high wind. The regions seem just as violent now as they did before Arafat and Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, and before Mandela and De Klerk locked into their collaboration toward...
...college basketball star Miles Simon. You know the expression “don’t let your imagination get the best of you”? It’s a funny one. Erroneous interpretations of reality, the phrase suggests, proclivities for the idealized or the fictitious, can threaten our safety, happiness, or otherwise get the best of us. Take, for example, if at this very meal I had foreseen myself a champion eater and ingested 150 popcorn shrimp. Bad idea. But here is the beauty of writing: on paper, in words, imagination has free reign. The untrue or hypothetical...