Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton draws the line and has fights, says a top White House official, is going to be crucial to the "President's image with the American people." The veto is key. Says Representative George Miller, a California Democrat: "It's the nuclear weapon of American politics. You don't threaten it lightly, and you don't use it lightly." Miller doubts Clinton will have the resolve to use it effectively...
...fund's strategy in defeating the project had been successful in the past. They would file lawsuits, fight zoning changes and threaten all forms of legal action until the developer relented...
Supporters of Woolsey argue that he inherited many of the CIA's worst problems. Ames' spying did not occur on his watch. Nor did decades of sexual discrimination in the agency, which prompted 100 female case officers to threaten a class-action lawsuit. The CIA recently settled for $410,000 a suit by a senior female officer who charged that she was harassed by its old-boy network after she exposed carousing, wife beating and drunken behavior among male officers in the agency's Jamaica station. During his tenure, Woolsey worked to promote more women into the upper ranks...
...councillor says he fears the Pill may give teenagers "a false sense of security" and even threaten the city's AIDS-prevention efforts...
...have been used to disperse peaceful demonstrations. American made rifles, explosives and tank have been accessory to the murder of innocent people who dare to criticize their governments and to the ousting of democratically elected officials. Clinton's new policy would jeopardize the freedom and safety of dissidents and threaten democratic processes in the Third World...