Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets and the East Germans warned that relations between the two Germanys would suffer "serious damage" once the NATO missiles were installed. Against this chill blast, Reagan sent the protesters a message that fell mainly on deaf ears. Said he: "It is not the U.S. and NATO which threaten peace. We have no intermediate-range missiles in Europe and we're willing to forgo them entirely...
...cannot say definitively that U.S. citizens were free of danger, simply because no hostages had yet been taken. In fact, some reports have indicated that the medical students were indeed in danger before the U.S. forces arrived. It was clear in 1979 that anti-American sentiment in Iran could threaten U.S. lives there, but the U.S. government took no steps to safeguard them until it was too late. And that time-over a year and a half later-eight U.S. servicemen's lives lost in a futile attempt to save the hostages and correct the initial misjudgment...
...only a fixed piece of territory or ocean can be covered at any time. American policy makers must keep the paramount considerations uppermost in their planning. If United States forces ever find themselves spread too thinly, and a truly dangerous situation develops, then a real crisis could threaten the world. This point has not yet been reached, to the Administration's credit. But this week's events show the potential danger all too clearly...
...pragmatic inevitability, but a shame, that money woes should threaten the innovative new programs at the Ed School, because if schools like this are forced to limit their projects, then all that will be left to future graduates of the deteriorating American school system will be a pile of yellowed reports, journalists' and politicians yellowed speeches, and articles--a pile which fewer and fewer will be able read...
...when Argentina used it successfully to sink two British ships in the Falklands war. Once the Super Etendards, which can fly up to 733 m.p.h. at low altitudes and have a radius of 530 miles without refueling, are armed with the Exocets, the Iraqis will be better able to threaten Iran's oil exports. Though the missiles cannot knock out the installations at Kharg island, which are well defended and have already withstood Iraqi bombing, the Exocets could be used to discourage vulnerable tankers from calling at the Iranian port. Without ever firing a shot, Iraq could diminish Tehran...