Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israeli and Palestinian negotiators struggled to settle their differences over security and border issues by Dec. 13, Rabin warned that meeting the deadline "looks difficult." Arafat, too, worried that the violence "could threaten the peace process." But, the P.L.O. chairman told TIME, "the process will go forward in spite of everything." Even if the beginning of Israeli troop withdrawal slips past the scheduled day, the hour when authority will be transferred into Palestinian hands is fast approaching. The most critical question now is whether Arafat and the Palestinians are ready to rule themselves...
...Many of our most significant institutions, both domestic and international, are under great stress--stress that is serious enough to threaten their capacity to fulfill their basic functions. Some of our more established domestic institutions--our public schools, our health care system, our major cities, our manufacturing industries--are more beleaguered than at any time in recent memory...
...open expression of loathing for the homeless. Once romanticized as impoverished casualties of an uncaring society, America's homeless -- who number anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million, depending on whose count you believe -- are now more likely to be demonized as pathological predators who spoil neighborhoods and threaten the commonweal...
...ground; the best bribe it can offer, of course, is that of diplomatic recognition and free trade. But here, just as with China, the opposition holds all the cards. If North Korea fails to give in to economic pressure, the U.S. has proven that it will do little but threaten and dawdle--as in Bosnia, where sanctions have done little to stop the slaughter...
These colorful performances by better-known faces almost threaten to overshadow the strong work of Karl Johnson as the older Wittgenstein. Sometimes bewildering in his anger and self-hatred, at other times sweet and naive, this complex performance of a tormented soul is both intelligent without being pretentious, and intelligently humane. Also of note are Kevin Collins as Johnny, the lover of Maynard Keynes (John Quentin), as well as of Wittgenstein himself--sort of. Jarman is intent upon portraying homosexual love both as it is manifested in Keyne's and Johnny's relationship and as it is denied and gradually...