Word: threatener
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...clinching failure by the West was its belief that it could influence without becoming involved -- and then threaten force but not use it. Bill Clinton entered office after campaigning to get tough in the Balkans. In April he went so far as to promise to use air power against Serbian gun positions. But the threat of force wilted in May with the ill-fated European tour of Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who could not -- some say would not -- persuade the European Community to follow the American lead. Last week Christopher essentially ruled out using force at all to stave...
Finding workers to replace strikers is already a difficult task. Strikers often jeer at new workers, call them scabs, threaten them with physical abuse, and sometimes even engage in bullying tactics such as physcially and verbally attacking replacements...
United, American and Delta may not be cowering at the thought of Classic Air, but the one-plane carrier represents a competitive spirit that is sweeping the entire industry -- and may ultimately threaten the industry leaders. In the biggest burst of entrepreneurial excitement since the boom after deregulation in the early 1980s, it seems that almost everyone with a hankering to start an airline is suddenly preparing for takeoff. Despite an industrywide slump and record losses of $8 billion since 1990, some 15 passenger airlines have begun flying in the past year alone. They range from Reno Air, a full...
...National Weather Service expects highs in the 80s for tomorrow's opening day, although thunder-storms will threaten in the afternoon. Forecasts, predictably, call for dry skies inside Memorial Hall, where registration will be held...
...does not threaten immediate retaliation if its market-opening goals are not met, but intends to "keep score" through such indicators as how much market share certain highly competitive foreign products and services command in the Japanese market. This approach showed success last year, when Japan grudgingly achieved a U.S.-set target of 20% market share for U.S. semiconductor exports, which dominated the market everywhere in the world except Japan...