Word: threatener
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...preparation is coming to grips with "dropping a little napalm on a village where there might even be women and children." Later, in a rather superfluous confrontation with a bar-full of townies, the hero ignores the taunt of "warmonger" and breaks noses only when the locals actually threaten him and Paula...
...Islands and the District of Columbia, to $7.8 billion. That figure is expected to grow to $9.5 billion by year's end, and more states are likely to join the list of loan seekers before the recovery gets under way. Moreover, strict new federal rules governing these debts threaten to keep many state unemployment funds on the edge of insolvency unless drastic steps are taken. Those steps could include the reduction of benefits for unemployed workers and income tax increases...
Trespass is not illegal under English law; criminal intent must be proved. Since Fagan did not threaten to harm the Queen, he was charged with stealing half a bottle of wine worth $5.40 during an earlier visit to the palace on June...
...counterpart to this emotion-packed relationship is provided by the unemotional scientists who threaten to destroy the bond between child and creature. In the opening sequence, they are filmed from a child's perspective, so that their heads are out of the camera's range. They become more foreign to the audience than the spaceman himself. They are the enemy because they represent a complete lack of subjective feeling. To Elliott, E.T. is a friend--a cross between a pet and a bosom buddy; to them, he is merely a subject for scrutiny...
Some unforeseen consequences of that decision, however, now threaten to ignite an international brawl. Trouble reached a climax last week when Treasury Secretary Donald Regan refused to grant cheap federal financing to aid the ailing Budd Co. of Troy, Mich., in a bid to build the cars...