Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loved Big Brother." There is only one major difference between Oceanin and the U.S. The techniques of government self-perpetuation are different. Our leaders don't torture U.S. citizens, although they explicitly support torture of innocent citizens in many other countries. There isn't enough domestic spying to threaten freedom of thought, although there is enough to warrant concern. But just like Winston, we have been convinced we love a Big Brother, a vague compendium of patriotism and a particular ethical model of selfishness and greed. We believe we have won a victory, just as Winston does...
...lost a third of their dollar value, and the government had pledged to buy the shares at precrash prices to keep investors from taking a beating. The collapse heightened an economic crisis that drove Israel's inflation above 1000%, at an annual rate, last October and continues to threaten the country's political stability...
...twelve Senate and 14 House leaders to press the case for doing so. In the Administration's view, talks on defensive weapons would in effect consist of a series of American lectures on the virtues of having "each side turn to greater reliance on defensive systems that don't threaten anyone," in the words of a senior Administration official. The White House also ruled out any thought of offering a moratorium on testing of antisatellite weapons as a concession to get bargaining started. A moratorium might eventually be negotiated, said Administration briefers, only as part of a "package deal...
...going Soviet interest in this field and the wholly unverifiable nature of such research. But beyond such limited, general exploration, as with all its real and imagined weapons systems, the Administration should be prepared to deal--and hopefully to start cutting into the plethora of offensive weapons that so threaten mankind...
...chemical industry had a Three Mile Island of its own when a gas leak at a Union Carbide plant killed some 2,500 people in Bhopal, India. The company faces a flurry of lawsuits that threaten its financial future. In the wake of the disaster, chemical manufacturers will have to take a hard look at safety procedures. Moreover, companies in all kinds of industries will need to examine whether their ways of doing business in foreign countries measure up to their standards at home. Said a shaken Warren Anderson, chairman of Union Carbide: "I think Bhopal has changed the world...