Word: threatener
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...superpower cronies are now grasping for military might; Iraq, China, and North Korea are but a few of the many regimes that seek nuclear weapons. The fall of communism has given way to the rise of nationalist totalitarianism, which can be much more nasty, even if it doesn't threaten immediate apocalypse...
Stereotypes and a closed culture both help spread the mistaken belief that Asians don't have health problems, and therefore don't need health care funding or special assistance, the panelists said. "We've had to threaten state departments with lawsuits to get funding," said Ports...
Remove Vincent and William Li from Dunster House. Regardless of the issue of nepotism, anyone with the poor judgment to threaten libel suits against those who criticized their behavior last spring should be in no position to act similarly vindictively towards undergraduates or other tutors. Karel Liem has endorsed their actions, but the Li brothers are the ones directly responsible for the atmosphere in Dunster House, an atmosphere in which tutors are threatened and pre-medical students remain silent for fear that their applications will be sabotaged. Neither of the Lis has made any move to apologize. Neither has demonstrated...
...stronomers have already identified more than 100 kilometer-wide asteroids and comets whose orbits may cross the Earth's--Marsden and others believe these sighted projectiles represent only a tiny portion of the objects that threaten...
Kuttner does not even see fit to mention that Clinton's proposed universal health care entitlement may, perhaps, threaten the Congressional Budget Office's projection that the budget deficit will decline from 4.3 percent to 2.5 percent...