Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand-picked choice of former dictator Efrain Rios. "This election is being closely watched by the international community, which fears that a Portillo victory would mean a serious setback for democracy," TIME's Mike Leffert reports from Guatemala City. "Business is also worried that a Portillo win could threaten privatization projects and guarantees for property rights." Weary of their country's 35-year-old civil war, some Guatamalans are beginning to yearn for a return to the militaristic, authoritarianism of Rios administration...
...WESTERN states have been creatures of federal subsidy--not only grass but minerals, timber and water as well. That federal oversight has fallen short of the ideal is evident in great carpets of sagebrush choking out the range grass, in clear-cut national forests and in mining ventures that threaten even such a national treasure as Yellowstone National Park. The fragile Western environment is degraded, and the public treasury receives virtually no revenue in return for the degradation. Public interest can be served only by improving the federal stewardship of what belongs to all Americans. ROBERT M. UTLEY, Moose, Wyoming...
...Saudi European Bank, an Arab-owned institution in Paris. The lawsuit was filed by the bank's former parent company, headed by Syrian-born banker Jamal Radwan. The complaint charges that several defendants concocted a scheme for Investcorp to take over Saudi European Bank. In addition, Kirdar allegedly threatened to persuade other banks to stop doing business with Radwan's. Some of the individuals named in the complaint are also accused of trying to bribe and threaten Radwan to get him to approve "uneconomic and illegal loans and business transactions for their personal benefit." A few of these individuals drained...
...Crimson did not seriously threaten to score until 18 minutes of the first half had elapsed, at which point Harvard drew a corner. But the shot from the stick of the Crimson's leading corner threat, junior Daphne Clark, skipped wide left, a sign of things to come...
...there is trouble in this seeming paradise. Beneath the calm surface, tensions are seething among scientists, fishermen, tour operators, smugglers and politicians. The hostilities threaten not only to disrupt the peaceful pace of Galapagos life but, far worse, to upset the fragile environmental balance in one of the world's most cherished ecological reserves...