Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Such episodes threaten the public trust and integrity of medical research," said Tosteson in a letter printed in November, after the case was publicized. "I hope that knowing that an episode of this kind can happen will help us to dedicate ourselves anew to the highest standards of conduct...
Unfortunately, these efforts threaten to replace a case study in the failure of the health care system with a case study in the failure of the political system. Expanding prenatal care through the means-tested Medicaid program would reinforce a second-class health care system for the poor--one which may often fail to deliver needed services...
What is truly insidious about senior bars, then, is the way they threaten to bring our years at Harvard full circle. Have you noticed, for instance, how many people at senior bars are people you haven't seen since Freshperson Week? In fact, almost all the scheduled senior events, from the brunch at the Harvard Union to the various fetes during Commencement Week, are advertised with the slogan, "It'll be just like the time our class did this Freshperson Week...
Nonetheless, Chancellor Helmut Kohl did not back down, and last week formally proposed negotiations with Moscow. In the U.S. view, the German demands threaten the entire NATO strategy of nuclear deterrence. For 40 years NATO has relied on nuclear weapons to offset the Warsaw Pact's overwhelming superiority in conventional arms. The backbone of its land-based tactical nuclear force consists of 88 U.S.-made Lance launchers...
...fracture lines in Congress are already forming along party lines. Twenty-five Senators and 115 Congressmen put their names to a brief in the Webster case supporting Roe. All but 17 were Democrats. But Republican strategists do not expect abortion to threaten the G.O.P. advantage in presidential years. "I don't think you'll see the Republican Party or the White House getting involved in all these state fights over it," says G.O.P. consultant Charles Black. "In a national election I would expect abortion to be one of the second-tier issues, not a top-tier burning...