Word: threatener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most experts, though, believe the threat of atomic war was minimal during the coup and will probably remain so even if the Union dissolves. One reason is that virtually all the U.S.S.R.'s strategic nuclear arms -- the missile- and bomber-borne kinds that threaten other nations -- are in just four republics: Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and Kazakhstan...
Salomon's more urgent problem is customer defections, which threaten the firm's liquidity. The World Bank and at least two state treasuries and four state pension funds said they would all stop buying Treasury bonds through Salomon until questions about auction violations are resolved. The British Treasury is also considering sanctions against the investment house. More desertions are expected...
...wave of public revulsion rolled across the country. Moscow party chief Yuri Prokofiev was hauled in for questioning by the state prosecutor. Demonstrators toppled statues of Lenin and other communist heroes in major cities, and some democratic reformers were worried that the rising spirit of vindictiveness might threaten the safety of party officials, especially in non-Russian republics...
...complicated and his game too reliant on intangibles to carry him to the level of his idol Nicklaus. But there is something heroic in the quotable slugger's triumph, and it would be a shame to see him become one of the legion of golf technocrats who threaten to turn the sport into a boring science. There may be a lesson for other pros in the enormous fan response to golf's new Sultan of Swing: people love athletes who shoot for the stars...
...body punches of recent accusations stemming from his appearance at the Indianapolis pageant. An 18-year-old contestant says the fighter raped her in a hotel room. And Miss Black America of 1990, the first to make the buttock-fondling charge, has sued Tyson for $100 million. The allegations threaten to abort Tyson's November fight with current title holder Evander Holyfield -- the ex-champ's chance to recapture his old glory and the awe he once commanded in and outside the ring...