Word: threatener
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...Bronte sisters. She is faithful to her inspiration, and the violent unleashing of passions and the consequences that follow are portrayed in a manner that does the author of Wuthering Heights proud. In the world portrayed by Campion, the characters have no defense against the passions that threaten to overtake them. They are foreigners transplanted to a strange new land where the senses rule. Life is overpowering here: the sea is wilder than in England, the rain more forceful and abundant. The jungle teems with life, and the knee-deep mud threatens to hold the inhabitants fast. The majority...
What neither plan explicitly addresses is a way to deal with the inevitable progress of technology. Because the real crisis in health care isn't inefficiency--it's these constantly rising costs, which threaten to stretch already thin resources. Any reasonable plan to manage health care insurance must explicitly address this quandary. Clinton's advisors, the framers of national health care policy, ought to know this...
That is the hope. The new law of the land is a package of compromises designed to bring full democracy and a long list of fundamental rights to 28 million increasingly impatient blacks, while assuring 5 million apprehensive whites that black rule will not threaten their lives and livelihoods. After elections scheduled for April 27, the country will be governed by a two-house parliament, one elected by proportional representation, the other by nine new provincial legislatures, that will write a permanent constitution. The President, chosen by the winning party, will oversee a Cabinet of 27 ministers, including representatives from...
...secret that the North Koreans are actively trying to establish a nuclear weapons program, which would threaten to destabilize the balance of power in East Asia. The possibility is so real, in fact, that Clinton visited Japan last summer not only to discuss trade issues, but to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to providing a "nuclear umbrella" for Japan and the other Pacific Rim nations. In February, CIA Director R. James Woolsey testified before the House Armed Services Committee that North Korea is currently one of the most serious threats to American interests...
However, as Galbraith offered his concluding remarks, I found myself becoming more perplexed with the disturbing U.S. centrism that continues to limit and threaten Latin America's development: "It does not matter what the outcome on NAFTA is. In six months, no one will remember it." Sadly enough, that may be true of the United States. But is it true in Mexico as well? Clearly, the answer is no. In fact, NAFTA is conceivably the most important piece of foreign legislation that has marked Mexico's history as an independent nation...