Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What does threaten to turn our gaze from the central action between host and hostess is the shining performance of Jane Loranger. Loranger plays Honey not merely as a drab, "slim-hipped" hanger onto Nick, but as a mostly-clueless waif with occasional but unspoken real glimmers of insight. She delivers lines like "Oh yes, [Nick] has a very firm body" deadpan, and "I don't want any children, I don't want any hurt" with a hysterical intensity that brings on the shivers...
City Councilor Saundra Graham said, "We [the city] are not going to bear the burden of all the homelessness in this city." She said that Harvard needs to work with Cambridge in this area and in developing strategies to deal with the Gramm-Rudman budget cuts that threaten both university and city revenues...
However, recent actions by Congress threaten the peer review process. Congress has begun to legislate research funds directly to institutions, thus bypassing the review process and seriously threatening the future quality and integrity of academic research...
...until Congress threatened to cut off aid and preempt Reagan, did he even threaten sanctions against Marcos. If there is a Reagan doctrine, it is certainly not active intervention to support the development of democratic regimes...
Accuracy in Academia has yet to gain the credibility or the influence to seriously threaten the academic community. As the saying goes, however, time is on its side--unless teachers and students make a strong stand for the integrity of academic freedom...