Word: threatener
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France has had to threaten a major blowup in the E.C. to ward off CAP's immediate demise. In light of the Maastricht debacle and the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco, a war over the CAP might cause a complete E.C. meltdown. Then E.C. would come to stand for "Economic Crisis," and Europe would pull the rest of the world economy down with...
Look at the sucess Sting and others have had raising environmental awareness. By proselytizing against the dangers which threaten South America's rain forests, Sting has brought his personal crusade home to many. Michael Stipe of REM rarely lets a public opportunity go by without attempting to address gun control, abortion, or the environment. Similarly, U2 concert-goers must often wonder if they have purchased tickets to a rock concert or a Bonoled pro-Ireland rally...
...nuclear threat in the 1990s will continue to create opportunities for mischief among some nationalist ideologues and local despots. In the decades ahead, the major powers will ignore most petty tyrants and the brutal but small-bore wars that they foment -- unless they seriously endanger their neighbors or threaten their own people with genocide. When that occurs, the United Nations will, in most cases, authorize joint armed intervention. When it does not, the U.S. and other states that share its views will act on their...
...course, the Crimson wasn't alert or aggressive enough to seriously threaten the Huskies...
...Dakar, Senegal, we completed a two-day session of the International Negotiation Network, analyzing with African leaders the dozen existing wars and five other emerging conflicts that threaten peace and progress on the continent. I discussed this work with President Abdou Diouf, whose coalition government will be facing the voters in February 1993. Diouf, who is presently chairman of the Organization of African Unity, supports a stronger role for the organization in peacekeeping and in the monitoring of democratic elections...