Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary next month, its new leaders promise a reformed good-government group. However, the defection of popular Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 from the group in 1993 and a breakdown in communication within the organization last year threaten to hamper the liberal group's efforts to clarify its political agenda...
...just declared a holiday cease-fire-rejected by the rebels-in Russia's war with the breakaway region of Chechnya. At home his political popularity is at an all-time low-thanks to the continuing economic crisis and a growing crime rate-and powerful forces are mobilizing that could threaten Yeltsin's prospects for the presidential election next year. Beyond all that, there are the issues standing between him and a successful summit with the U.S.-especially the expansion of nato into Eastern Europe and Russia's plans to sell nuclear reactors to Iran...
...nomination, Dole swiped at "single-issue constituencies," like those seeking to preserve "the right to bear arms." Today Dole favors repealing the ban on assault weapons. Back then Dole described America as "the Mother of Exiles" and spoke movingly about "not fearing that new Americans [might] threaten to diminish a finite national wealth." Today he supports the G.O.P.'s anti-immigrant stance. Back then he warned against "dividing a people to conquer office" and about "exacerbating [racial tensions] for political advantage." Today he opposes the affirmative-action programs he used to defend...
...attack on 'political correctness,' as faras I can see, is a reaction based on fear of newdevelopments that threaten some people's sense ofhow things should be, but we can't go back to the19th century when the so-called minorities weretruly invisible and silent," she says. "Those daysare over and we had better learn how to deal withthe present and future, rather than trying to turnback the clock...
...that houses will lose their identifying characteristics because of randomization lacks any logical foundation. Each year, even in largely randomized houses, longstanding traditions such as theatricals, music societies, dances and intramurals attract new classes of interested sophomores. With such large and inevitably diverse house populations, randomization could not possibly threaten firmly-grounded cultural and social institutions...