Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike Russian President Boris Yeltsin, President Jiang Zemin maintains tight political control. The reform-minded Zhu might take some heat if the currency sinks, but in contrast to the unruly Duma, China's pliant National People's Congress is not going to threaten a constitutional crisis...
...civilization should a large comet or asteroid strike the earth." The 7829 Jaroff has a diameter of 8 to 10 km--about the size of the comet that killed off the dinosaurs. He points out that his asteroid is so far considered benign, meaning it does not threaten to intercept the earth's orbit anytime soon. Needless to say, Jaroff is quite pleased to be acknowledged by the IAU and to gain this bit of immortality: "I've never had anything named after me before, not even my children...
...there any way the White House can block release? Clinton attorney Charles Ruff has supposedly set up lines of communication with committee chair Henry Hyde; if they fail, aides expect that Democrats will threaten the end of bipartisan cooperation. Not that the word "bipartisan" has much currency anymore in a House where each member seems to have his own solution to the crisis. In the end, perhaps the only thing that will keep the GOP from letting the tapes be broadcast is the fear of public backlash. After all, Clinton always comes back strongest when he is most under fire...
...revive a nuclear weapons project they had agreed to shelve. It's still not clear what is going on at the dig. Some analysts guess that the project is a kind of bluff, an attempt to leverage the impoverished regime's only real bargaining chip: its ability to threaten its neighbors. Unveiling a new missile would fit nicely with that strategy. "This may be a way of poking us and saying, 'Pay attention to North Korea. We can still be a pain in the neck,'" says Joel Wit, a senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a Washington-based...
...some Russians and increase the cost of living for many, especially those who live in the cities, where more than half the food in the shops is imported. Those are cruel blows to a nation that is already suffering, and could trigger enough political backlash and social unrest to threaten Yeltsin and raise questions about who or what will follow...