Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indebtedness and poverty of the Third World threaten the trend of democracy there. The indebtedness of the U.S., both to itself and to foreigners, threatens its prosperity at home and its influence abroad. The consequences of Japan's emergence as an economic superpower could end up dwarfing the current, suddenly fashionable concern over the reunification of Germany. The U.S. may have won the cold war against the Soviet Union, but it has gone a long way toward losing the trade and technology war with Japan. Meanwhile, the environment, while also newly fashionable as a subject of political rhetoric...
...with the Pentagon looking for ways to trim its budget, U.S. defense policy includes a caveat: the West must be prepared for the danger that Gorbachev will be overthrown; he might be replaced by a retrograde Soviet leadership that will once again -- that is the key phrase: once again -- threaten the rest of the world with military intimidation if not conquest...