Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress moves to rollback Reagan Administration restrictions on the flow of scientific information, the University appears to have stepped up efforts to oppose the limits, which it says threaten freedom of academic inquiry and opinion...
...they worked, encouraging clients to pick up hammers and join them on weekends, and throwing parties in partly built houses to celebrate the completion of a foundation or their topping off of a roof. No, the Jersey Devil, which takes its name from a mythical creature said to threaten people in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, is no ordinary architectural firm. But don't get them wrong. Badanes, Jim Adamson, Greg Torchio and John Ringel are serious about what they do, and say it is in the best tradition of the American pioneer spirit...
...Iraqis and could topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, whom Iranian Leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has vowed to crush. The global importance of the war was shown anew last week when the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk moved to within striking distance of newly installed Iranian missile batteries that threaten shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf. Though Basra is usually closed to Western reporters, Dean Fischer, TIME's Cairo bureau chief, visited the devastated city last week. His report...
...which led them to decide that it was in fact a legitimate exercise of free speech. We expected that they would again act reasonably, and believe that had they done so, they would again have found our action to be a legitimate expression of free speech which did not threaten the continued speech of Kent-Brown...
...interest in Fairchild Semiconductor has begun ringing alarm bells in Washington. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger have asked the White House to consider blocking the purchase. Since Fairchild supplies computer chips to the U.S. military, the Cabinet officials fear that the deal could threaten national security. Baldrige is also concerned that through Fairchild, Fujitsu would gain a distribution system for its supercomputers, powerful machines that can be used to design weapons systems. At the same time, Japanese government institutions have refused to purchase U.S. supercomputers...