Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bears are in fourth place against Ivy League competition but are in third place in the ECAC overall, and they will threaten perennial stronghold Northeastern come ECAC tournament time. ECAC STANDINGS ECAC Overall Team W L T W L T Northeastern 5 0 0 6 3 1 UNH 4 0 0 10 2 0 Brown 2 0 1 4 2 1 Cornell 1 2 2 3 3 2 Dartmouth 2 1 0 5 5 0 Princeton 2 2 0 3 7 0 Providence 2 1 0 5 3 0 Colby 1 2 1 1 2 1 Harvard...
...Rabin, Shin Bet faces new allegations that one of the young religious zealots arrested for involvement in the murder was actually an informer on the service's own payroll. According to Israeli intelligence sources, the informer never told Shin Bet if he had heard the accused assassin, Yigal Amir, threaten to kill Rabin. A state commission of inquiry is delving into the service's failure to protect Israel's leader from homegrown fanaticism, but regardless of the findings, the stature and morale of the Shin Bet have already been shattered...
...unrealistic to assume that worthwhile negotiation can continue with such contradictions unmentioned and unaccounted for. The claim that we must overlook Arafat's less than peaceful rhetoric so as not to "delegitimize" him endangers the construction of true peace. Such attitudes threaten the formation of the comprehensive Middle East peace that has been Israel's dream for so long. --Miriam Goldstein...
That could put a brake on the U.S. economy, which grew a zesty 4.2% in this year's third quarter. Consumers account for two-thirds of the country's total spending, so any sharp decline in their purchases could slow the nearly five-year-old recovery or threaten to end it. "I see a 25% risk of a consumer-led recession in the first half of next year," Yardeni says...
...Desmond Llewelyn as a cranky English eccentric, still making fountain pens that explode and wristwatches that do more than tell time. He's the last link to the boyish silliness that once animated this series. One wishes him good health and long life, for if, as the closing credits threaten, "James Bond Will Return," they--and we--are going to need...