Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspected drug smugglers? Candidates for political office proffering urine samples and daring their opponents to do the same? The appointment of combative William J. Bennett as the nation's first drug czar, a post from which he would coordinate an all-out assault on a menace that seemed to threaten the very survival...
Everyone still hopes no one has to go to war against Iraq. But the only chance of avoiding it -- perhaps -- is to scare Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. The only way to do that is to threaten war louder than ever and mean it -- and get into position to fight, not just defensively if Saddam is mad enough to start anything further, but offensively if need be to force him out. That was the essential meaning of President Bush's high-volume announcement last week that the U.S. is sending new forces to the gulf, perhaps...
Republics, regions, even cities set a course for independence. -- In the republic of Moldavia, a three-way split comes close to civil war. -- Hindu extremism and caste politics threaten to bring down India's government...
...nation's feminists still hope to end the suffering of the Agunot. Alice Shalvi, chairwoman of the Israel Women's Network, wants to strengthen the civil courts by giving them the power to threaten husbands with financial penalties and even arrest them if they refuse to release their wives from broken marriages. In Israel's volatile political climate, that seemingly sane proposal stands little chance of success...
...into a key role on the Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee. Recently, for example, he sponsored a successful amendment that forced savings and loans to disclose their lending patterns on the basis of race to their communities. His opponent Glen Fiscus is not a viable enough candidate to threaten Kennedy's deserved support...