Word: threatener
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...Somebody at the K-School once said he had the instincts of a bully," the co-worker says. "He really had a way of knowing who was vulnerable, who had to take it from him. It was designed to threaten me and it worked...
Yale Undergraduates Threaten Tuition Strike to Support Union...
Last week the Food and Drug Administration released affidavits given by Uydess and two other former Philip Morris employees, William Farone and Jerome Rivers, that threaten to push the tobacco industry farther out on a legal limb. All three men directly contradict the testimony of former Philip Morris ceo William Campbell before Representative Henry Waxman's 1994 congressional subcommittee. At those hearings Campbell, along with six other tobacco ceos, swore that he did not believe nicotine was addictive, and that Philip Morris did nothing to manipulate or increase nicotine levels in its products...
...part of China, it is also pledged to view an attack on it with "grave concern"--a purposely ambiguous statement that not only angers America's containment advocates but also frustrates Beijing. When Chinese officials felt out Nye in late 1995 about a U.S. reaction if China were to threaten Taiwan, he told them, "Nobody knows." In a later interview with TIME, he elaborated, saying, "There's less ambiguity here than meets the eye. But we don't want either side to rock the boat. We don't want Taiwan to declare independence, which would be the case...
...other hand, distorts the entity of the nation-state. The United States has no business abrogating responsibility to protect its borders. No one should call for a subordination of American sovereignty, especially on such a blatantly obvious issue of whom we call a citizen. To do so is to threaten the rational political senses embodied by this state. We do not desire a "country without borders," as a matter of practicality; those who do should act for change within the system instead of attempting to subvert it. But leaders like Sen. Simpson have a responsibility to challenge the forces...