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Word: threatener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also teach in my tutorial, when the cost of a policy is borne by those who hold no decision-making power, and they can't credibly threaten to exit (transferring to Yale), the policy usually goes uncorrected. I'm afraid this may be the case here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...House officials say they have no evidencethat giving has slowed in the past year. But asRadcliffe enters the last year of its $100 millioncampaign, any slowdown could threaten the 2000goal...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Radcliffe Still Uncertain One Year Later | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

...last moment scratching the purple prose he had reserved for Lloyd George: "this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity"), an outraged Keynes prophesied that the reparations would keep Germany impoverished and ultimately threaten all Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economist JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...lives in the Tiger's Den, a fortified five-acre compound half an hour's drive from the capital, Phnom Penh. There, during the sporadic outbursts of fighting that threaten his rule, he retreats to his emergency war room, a small building with dark glass windows and aerials on the roof. Inside is a small bedroom. "You see this?" he asks, pointing to a closet with a mirror on the front. "Inside, there is a secret trapdoor into the basement. When you are a soldier, you have to know the ways of escape." He regrets he cannot go to restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: Survival of the Paranoid | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...study, conducted by Illinois psychologist Laurie Kramer and researcher Lisa Perozynski, identified three main responses parents have when they find their children engaged in a verbal or physical fight: step in and talk it through with the children, threaten or admonish the children, or do nothing at all. As a group, both mothers and fathers believed that helping children resolve conflicts worked best in addressing the immediate problem. Yet when they examined 88 two-parent families with one child 3 to 5 years old and a second child two to four years older, Kramer and Perozynski found that parents were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reluctant Referees | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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