Word: threatening
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Because of its small size and the diversity of its attitudes, Harvard beckons as a perfect environment for its citizens to participate in determining their common values. But beware of two dangerous predators that threaten to alter the natural balance of that community and make an open society an endangered species. They are administrators and students...
Summertime is marching time for the Orange Order, a secretive clan that has trooped through the streets of Northern Ireland each summer for more than 150 years to commemorate Protestant triumphs in days gone by. This year, however, the marches threaten to become protests, and the protests skirmishes. Tensions have been running high ever since last November, when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald agreed to give the neighboring Irish Republic a limited say in Ulster affairs for the first time. As a result, Northern Ireland's 1 million Protestants, who make up roughly...
...State Department is arguing for a swift and substantive counterproposal to get the summit preparations moving, while the Pentagon and the CIA oppose any concessions that would threaten Star Wars. A meeting last week of midlevel arms-control advisers ended "in total disagreement," said one participant. "We are bogged down here, really stalemated." Unflagging support for SDI also dims the prospect for any agreement on nuclear testing. The Soviets have called for a total moratorium and have not detonated a nuclear device since August 1985. But some of the weapons envisioned by SDI require underground nuclear tests. The Pentagon argues...
...self-evident that freedom of expression was the cornerstone of all democratic liberties and that censorship of the press, in particular, would soon be seen by all Americans as folly and the sure road to despotism. I now realize that my confidence was premature. Government agencies continue to threaten news organizations that publish information known to everyone, including bitter adversaries, but the American people. Certain women strive to ban, as violations of their civil rights, portrayals of members of their sex that they find insulting. People who attempt to restrict what others are allowed to read do not imagine themselves...
Putnam said that while the turnover is unusually heavy, it does not threaten the department's ability to fulfill its teaching and research functions. "Departments of the size of ours have turnover," he said...