Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even heartened by the belief that the growing glut of information in the digital age will make their job of sifting, analyzing and editing the news even more valuable. Says Bill Mitchell, electronic publishing director of the San Jose Mercury News: ``There has been no technological development that will threaten a careful, enterprising and accurate reporter.'' But there are plenty of wired observers out there ready to pounce on a sloppy sentence or a mushy thought and hold a journalist's feet to the fire -- and there's nothing wrong with that either...
...other party, smokers, would find some limitations on their behavior but nothing approaching the banning of tobacco. Smokers will still have every right to continue smoking as much or as little as they wish, as long as it does not threaten the health or enjoyment of anyone else. We have laws on public drunkenness, we have speed limits--we should have stronger smoking restrictions...
...there are relatively few ``greedy geezers'' to be gouged. Nearly 80% of all Medicare benefits go to households with annual incomes less than $25,000. Another Republican proposal would simply impose a cap, a fixed percentage, on the growth of Medicare's budget. But opponents claim this would threaten vulnerable hospitals in inner cities and rural areas, while creating chaos in a program destined to grow larger from the addition of aging baby boomers...
...introducing a nationality-based fee scale for work permits. The fees range from $1,520 for Mauritanians and $1,160 for Malians down to $95 for French or U.S. nationals. Foreigners must pay up or leave by Feb. 15. With petitions signed by thousands of unemployed Gabonese who threaten to ``kill and burn'' illegal immigrants, western and central Africans are spending their savings for a ticket home. Said Tankara Ibrahima, a merchant who disembarked at Abidjan to continue overland to Mali: ``They were not nice about the new decision. They did not treat us well...
...seized a quick 3-0 lead--a lead it would never relinquish. Harvard fought back to 3-4, but the Big Green was determined to take at least a set for its efforts in Cambridge. Dartmouth ran off the next six points, and Harvard did not threaten in the set again...