Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talmege said the society believes new, modern lights would clash with Cambridge's historical architecture and threaten the Charles River Basin's listing in the national historical register...
...seven months Reagan tried to serve as a mediator, but eventually he led actors across picket lines to help break the strike. Tension ran so high that for a while Reagan carried a revolver; he thought that Communists were out to wreck his career and might even threaten his life. He is incensed now that some writers are taking a revisionist view of the period. Says Reagan, his mouth a thin line and his face more grim than he ever lets it get in public: "The rewriting of history that is going on about that era is the biggest fairy...
Although the Senate has already passed its version of the measure and the House of Representatives is scheduled to consider the bill during its November "lame duck" session, "Harvard is damned concerned that the differences on the Hill and political obstacles may threaten" the legislation, Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations, said yesterday...
Twenty Massachusetts cities including Boston and Cambridge filed suit together yesterday to force a recount of the 1980 census, because officials said they fear the population decreases reported threaten federal funding and state representation...
...likelihood, events will not force Carter to make good on that pledge in the near future. That should not lull Americans into ignoring the meaning of this latest application of the "Carter doctrine." It means that, should this week's war or future tumults threaten the oil pipeline from the Persian Gulf, Carter will send in the Navy, the Air Force and--if necessary--the Army. It means that, even though world oil supplies will become inadequate within two or three decades with the best possible supply situation, Carter believes it is worth fighting today to preserve this phantom...