Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven-page evaluation, completed by a panel of three professors, states that the concentration has been largely successful in providing its students with a satisfying and coherent course of study. It says, however, that Literature's reliance on non-tenured instructors and faculty members drawn from related disciplines may threaten that success in years to come...
Divesting would also threaten the autonomy ofHarvard, said Bok. "When you start to do that[divest], there are a lot of things which you mayhold dear that are going to be in jeopardy," saidBok, adding that corporation might attempt toexert economic and political influence overpolicies of the University if Harvard were toattempt to do the same over them...
...percent of the P&L workers are women from around East Boston's Chinatown area, most of whom have difficulties speaking English. The district is already weak in its political representation. It's easy to see how the prospect of 500 unemployed and angry Asian women might not threaten or pressure state officials at the Division of Employment Security (DES) into action...
This enterprise is more troublesome than it might seem, however, because the setting is Maggie Thatcher's Britain. The plot moves along as Omar encounters the racist tensions and youthful frustrations of the fair Queen's city, which threaten to rise above the surface and destroy the young Pakistani's sweet dreams...
...protesters will also ignore the issue of U.S.-Soviet trade and the role played by American corporations in providing Moscow with the military technology used to subjugate the Soviet Union's neighbors and threaten American national security. The Ford Motor Company constructed an automobile plant at Gorkii which produces motors for the T-72 tank, the workhouse of the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Swindell-Dressler helped build the Kama River Truck plant which also produces vehicles used by the Red Army in Afghanistan. The Bryant Chucking Grinder Company of Vermont sold the Kremlin the ball bearings without which the construction...