Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clinching failure by the West was its belief that it could influence without becoming involved -- and then threaten force but not use it. Bill Clinton entered office after campaigning to get tough in the Balkans. In April he went so far as to promise to use air power against Serbian gun positions. But the threat of force wilted in May with the ill-fated European tour of Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who could not -- some say would not -- persuade the European Community to follow the American lead. Last week Christopher essentially ruled out using force at all to stave...
...hunting ban has done nothing to eliminate other human activities that also threaten the animals. Commercial fisheries deplete the whales' feeding grounds and disrupt their breeding areas and nurseries. Scientists suspect that PCBs, pesticides and other toxic chemicals leak into rivers and out to sea, weaken whales' immune systems and drive down their birthrates. Observes Scott Kraus, a marine biologist with the New England Aquarium: "The public gets hung up on whaling, but what's really worse is what we flush down the toilet...
Finding workers to replace strikers is already a difficult task. Strikers often jeer at new workers, call them scabs, threaten them with physical abuse, and sometimes even engage in bullying tactics such as physcially and verbally attacking replacements...
United, American and Delta may not be cowering at the thought of Classic Air, but the one-plane carrier represents a competitive spirit that is sweeping the entire industry -- and may ultimately threaten the industry leaders. In the biggest burst of entrepreneurial excitement since the boom after deregulation in the early 1980s, it seems that almost everyone with a hankering to start an airline is suddenly preparing for takeoff. Despite an industrywide slump and record losses of $8 billion since 1990, some 15 passenger airlines have begun flying in the past year alone. They range from Reno Air, a full...
...National Weather Service expects highs in the 80s for tomorrow's opening day, although thunder-storms will threaten in the afternoon. Forecasts, predictably, call for dry skies inside Memorial Hall, where registration will be held...