Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apart from its economic effects, the needlessly prolonged stoppage pointed up a critical need for legislation to prevent such situations. In his State of the Union address, President Johnson promised to draft tough new federal laws to "deal with strikes which threaten irreparable damage to the national interest." No such legislation has yet been proposed, and until it is, the Government can do little but muddle through crippling work stoppages in the transportation industry. The Administration's next exercise in ad-lib arbitration will most likely come when the militant railroad brotherhoods hold long-postponed negotiations with companies that...
Though he can make any flippancy sound quotable just by arching his eyebrows over it, Grant is never left on his own to build a flimsy notion into a one-man show. Sol Saks's dialogue bristles amiably from first to last, and when blithe spirits threaten to overflow the tiny three-room flat, Director Charles Walters shuffles words, pranks and players in and around greater Tokyo with a perfectly relaxed air. Hutton, a quizzical comic talent packed into a skyscraper frame, hilariously displays a pained embarrassment over his skill as a wiggly-hipped 30-mile walker...
...Emotion. The 96-year-old statute under which they and a third Klansman, George H. Turner, were accused makes it a crime to "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States." Though the law was intended to encourage Negro voting, the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, April 8) recently opened the way for the trial by interpreting it to cover any attempt to block a citizen's right to interstate travel; at the time...
...imperfect monetary weapon against inflation-hurts some segments of the economy (such as savings institutions and housing) but leaves others (such as banks and industry) relatively unscathed. Partly for this reason, there are limits to how much credit can be tightened without so dislocating the economy as to threaten a recession. If Washington reduced its massive domestic spending on top of the cost of Viet Nam, banks and the Federal Reserve could pursue a gentler course...
...first half of the movie, when the focus is on Morgan trying to manipulate society, the exploration is riotous. There is something of Jerry Lewis's congenital incompetence in Morgan's attempts to threaten and bully. Something childlike, but not quite. A kid picking wings off a fly can ease into adulthood, but Morgan doesn't have the potential to be even a human baby. He's apart and that's that...