Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senate Banking Committee Chair Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-N.Y.) criticized Summers for failing warn people that the peso was in trouble. However, this criticism was not enough to seriously threaten the nomination of Summers, who received tenure at Harvard before...
...moguls. In one grand gesture he erased much of the conventional wisdom about his style and vision: the heart surgery that was supposed to have mellowed him turns out to have made him even tougher; the egomaniac who was accused of driving away anyone talented enough to threaten his regime embraces Cap Cities' formidable president, Robert Iger, and his team; the tightwad who would never buy retail or take the big gamble for fear of making the big mistake goes and seals the deal of the year. "It took last year for it to be revealed that he wasn...
...House follows the Senate with a veto-proof lifting of the ban, Clinton fears the ensuing warfare will trigger a massive U.N. withdrawal requiring escort by 25,000 U.S. troops. TIME's Dean Fischer reports that NATO officials are moving to expand their mandate to attack Serbs if they threaten any remaining safe haven. Clinton, asked today why the Serbs should take the new threat seriously, said: "If the U.N. fails the next time, there will be a different course." But Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, indicted as a war criminal Wednesday, thumbed his nose at the American lawmakers who would...
...self-doubt. "We've always been defensive," says Charlotte ATF agent in charge Paul Lyon. "We have always been susceptible to light breezes--it doesn't even take a full storm." But this week the agency is bracing itself once again for gale-force winds that may well threaten its survival...
...Cynthia McKinney, a black Democrat. In a suit brought by five white voters, the court ruled that because race was the "predominant'' consideration in drawing McKinney's district, it violated their rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. "Racial classifications with respect to voting,'' Kennedy warned, "threaten to carry us further from the goal of a political system in which race no longer matters...