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Opening more stores would be difficult. Anysuch expansion could increase sales to non-membersand threaten the store's co-op status...
...outset that he could tinker a bit to ease the pressures on the Soviet economy and make society more comfortable. He blames the system for making that impossible. Initially, he said, some progress was visible, but when senior officials of the party and state saw how the reforms might threaten their power and positions, they put on the brakes. If the ruling hierarchy's grip was to be broken, he decided, a more democratic form of politics would have to be introduced. He assumed that power would have to be decentralized and that he would have to give up some...
...writers warn us that we threaten to open the floodgates. If opening the floodgates means changing the fact that the majority of rapes go unaccused, unprosecuted and unpunished, then the floodgates must be opened...
...talked to the secretary at Vellucci's office, who happened to be Karen Uminski. It was tough to get a straight answer. She seemed to think I could threaten her campaign, which shocked me," Meyer said...
...defendant agrees to enter a guilty plea, and the judge recites the required litany: "Do you decide to admit to this of your own free will? Do you have a mental disease? Are you under the influence of drugs, alcohol, or medication? Did anybody force you, threaten you, or give you something to make this statements...