Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...responded on the eve of the Fourth of July with a resounding "Non!" The panel voted to recommend to President Bush this week a rejection of Thomson-CSF's $300 million offer, based on widespread concern that the sale would compromise LTV's considerable top-secret high technology and threaten national security interests. The action was taken on the same day that votes in both the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate expressed disapproval of the sale. Anticipating rejection, Thomson-CSF officials have been scrambling for some time to put together a new offer -- with American partners, including Raytheon, Northrop...
...Military intervention, most believe, would be likely to land outside powers in a Vietnam-style quagmire and cost them heavy casualties. There may be universal outrage at the human carnage, but unlike Iraq's grab for oil-rich Kuwait, Serbia's depredations against Croatia and Bosnia do not threaten the strategic interests of the U.S. or European neighbors enough to justify the risks of sending in troops...
...torn by contending emotions toward his stepfather. He had urged his mother not to reunite with him. "I didn't think he would straighten up, even though I loved him." Both mother and son remember one traumatic confrontation when a 14-year-old Clinton broke in the door to threaten his father. Both, until their memories were recently jogged, thought this ended the physical threats. Now they admit that could not have been the case. Why does Clinton remember the break-in episode and not later ones, which he described in his deposition? "That ((break-in)) was a dramatic thing...
...region does face threats. According to Nilson de Barros, president of the Society for the Defense of the Pantanal, the rivers that feed into its marshes are being polluted by gold mining, deforestation and agriculture. To feed cattle herds, some ranchers are planting exotic grasses that threaten the delicate balance of the ecosystem. Wild-animal dealers are going after such items as rare birds and capybara skins. But De Barros believes the problems will be kept under control. He stresses that the Pantaneiros have traditionally respected the area's riches, and they are beginning to realize that their home...
Yale, for instance, faces severe departmentalcutbacks which could threaten up to 114 facultyposition over the next 10 years, And theUniversity of California system has had a salaryincrease freeze for two years...