Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time and again that has forced him to be pragmatic, to keep negotiations moving by retreating from his core ideology and making compromises with the Palestinians. But every time he does, his base supporters among Israel's hard-liners threaten to topple his coalition government, and Netanyahu has to come up with a countervailing move to pacify them...
...familiar list of offenses goes on: the post-season games broadcast late at night, feeding network television with ratings but depriving a new generation of baseball memories, the continuing labor disputes that perpetually threaten to shut the game down again and the wild card playoff system that perverted the integrity of the regular season for a few extra bucks...
...city approves a project that the Defense Fund feels would threaten the Square, the Fund's 24-member board can file a suit in the Superior Court of Middlesex County, naming the developer as well as the members of the Planning Board as defendants...
...between rich and poor individuals yawns, so does the divide between wealthy and impoverished provinces, creating competing regional principalities that threaten the control of the central government in Beijing. The wealthy Meccas on the coast routinely ignore orders from the national authorities, their aggressive technocrats think and act according to their own rules, and power flows where the money goes...
...Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther, Gates ranks a mere 31st. He is ahead of the modest Mark Hopkins, one of the powers who built the Central Pacific Railroad, just behind meat-packer Philip Armour, and way, way behind John D. Rockefeller at No. 1. Gates doesn't figure to threaten old John D. The authors determined the standings by looking at the tycoons' fortunes in relation to the country's total GNP. So even if Gates ratchets up the billions, the immensity of the economy makes it hard for him to move up very far. By the way, with...