Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush has been known to speak out on the same day for both union and nonunion workers, for owls and loggers, for the environment and the industries that threaten it. When the self-proclaimed Education President needed to unveil a new education policy while addressing students at an Allentown, Pa., high school last week, he borrowed one -- from Clinton. Campaigning in Philadelphia for next week's Pennsylvania primary, Clinton blasted Bush for appropriating a guaranteed-college-loan plan "that has been at the core of my presidential campaign since the day I announced." The Governor quipped, "Now, they...
...sentimental tears. But when the party ends, Momma reminds the Roman Catholic celebrators that they have been "dancing on graves." Four days later, there will be a fresh grave to dig -- that of May, the autumn bride -- and the family will sink back into the regret and loss that threaten to smother three generations of Townes...
Declining exports could further hamper Americans' job prospects. While U.S. sales abroad last year provided most of what little strength the economy showed, slumps in Japan and Germany threaten to cut into that foreign business. Moreover, newly cautious Japanese companies seem reluctant to continue making job-creating investments in U.S. factories and real estate, and have already begun to withdraw from the Treasury markets that finance the U.S. deficit. "No more Japanese investors are coming in," observes Georgia State's Ratajczak, "and that's a problem...
Perhaps it was not "appropriate" for Noel to threaten to sue The Crimson. But then perhaps it was not "appropriate" for an author and a cartoonist to accuse him of anti-Semitism...
...student says something that he finds insulting, does he threaten to whack them upside the head with a two-by-four to teach them the error of their ways...