Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pond and created a wildflower meadow. Author of the new book Noah's Garden, Stein decries "the vast, nearly continuous and terribly impoverished ecosystem" consisting of copycat lawns and gardens from coast to coast. "We cannot in fairness rail against those who destroy the rain forest or threaten the spotted owl," she says, "when we have made our own yards uninhabitable...
...achieve market-sharing deals, the Clinton team will have to threaten higher barriers to imports, as it already has. If that threat is to remain credible, from time to time it will have to be carried through--and there will be no dearth of voices accusing Clinton of cowardice if he later backs down. Merely by issuing the threat, the administration shows that it is willing to employ protectionist policies. And in the process, the American government denies itself its best defense: a cogent intellectual argument. For if there are circumstances in which it makes economic sense to grant greater...
...former Yugoslavia, is preparing a memo for President Clinton that suggests one way the U.S. could justify the unilateral use of force against the Serbs. Biden plans to tell the President that because U.N. resolutions permit "all necessary means" to deliver humanitarian aid to Bosnia, the Serbian gunners who threaten aid convoys are fair targets for American bombs. Biden will also suggest that the U.S. should abandon the arms embargo against Bosnia, thus literally giving the Serbs' victims more of a fighting chance. As one member of Biden's staff who accompanied him on his trip put it, "We couldn...
...enslavement of blacks in America, an immense historical tragedy, was, however, different from the European Holocaust. Slavery did not threaten the extinction of black Africans; in biblical terms, it was more like the Egyptian captivity, not the apocalypse. But it is ridiculous to engage in a competition of comparative tragedies. A Museum of Black America in Washington is just as necessary, and would be just as civilizing, as the Holocaust museum...
Second, morale: the military does all it can to keep unnecessary pressures and tensions from infiltrating the working and living environment. Sexual tension, let alone sexual activity, can poison this environment and ruin efficiency. In addition, any relations within units could threaten the chain of command, the backbone of the military...