Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left slugging it out in a narrowing segment. GM execs may want to keep at least one of the offerings to compete with the popular Ford Mustang, but they are faced with a dilemma: both cars are built in the same plant in Quebec, and killing one would threaten the other by making it prohibitively costly to produce...
...softly enough to their real fans, and eyes will glisten) are in danger of changing. Cal Ripken Jr. sets a new record for consecutive games every time he steps onto the field. Juan Gonzalez may beat the record for RBIs that Hack Wilson set in 1930. The Yankees threaten to win more games this year than the 1906 Cubs, who won 116. Rookie pitcher Kerry Wood tied the record of 20 strikeouts in a game--and did it at age 20. The most famous mark in sports, Roger Maris' single-season home-run record...
...supreme irony of fate, the death of a young, innocent boy who probably knew little of hate or history spurred the black community to demand its rights. Stephen, who never tried to wound or even threaten his killers, could have been an example of how to bring change peacefully, but, instead, he is now a symbol for a group determined to destroy and condemn...
...clout he needs to push for controversial reform. Yet voter turnout is expected to be low, mainly because the public is disgusted with the political system. Moreover, an L.D.P. victory would depend on traditional supporters like farmers and construction workers, who are against reform because it would threaten their contracts and subsidies...
...death after the hapless wretch begged for a handout without saying please. Fact: No such incident has occurred, at least not recently. The ugly rumor may have been sparked by the shooting by an off-duty police officer of an unarmed "squeegee man," one of those aggressive supplicants who threaten windshields with slimy rags or sponges unless compensated, in conjunction with the fact that soon after the mayor came to office, most squeegee men and other homeless people mysteriously disappeared. But the suggestion that the mayor and some shadowy private army roam the streets late at night snatching up such...