Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's volleyball team recently completed the best season in its short history, but the high level of play brings novel problems that threaten the program's continued success. The spikers' goals furthered by their great success now conflict with the limits of time and budget faced by minor Crimson sports...
...length, an Argentina humiliated by the outcome of the Falklands crisis could be dangerously destabilizing to the region. Buenos Aires has not signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and operates a reactor capable of making weapons-grade plutonium. Question: Would a vengeful regime build the Bomb? Would it threaten...
...ideals that attracted us to Harvard in the first place, we concluded that we could not in good conscience write the usual type of "class report"--particularly today, when as in the era in which we first came to Harvard, anti-human forces on a national scale threaten not only civil liberties and justice but life itself...
...famous Milwaukee brewers have fallen on hard times. Schlitz no longer makes beer there. Takeover battles simmer among the suds, and mutinous stockholders threaten to dislodge entire boards of directors in nasty brawls not far above the barroom level. The brewers are in a battle for third place in the U.S. beer business, behind leader Anheuser-Busch and second-place Miller. Analysts believe that third largest is big enough to compete with the industry's leaders, but anything much smaller than that level cannot muster the advertising megabucks to fight off relative obscurity and low sales...
...Tiran, two moves designed to provoke Israel. Israel demurred for three weeks before launching the pre-emptive strike which marked the beginning of the Six Day War. For the third time, Israel prevailed in the Sinai. Since its first two withdrawals had opened an avenue for Nasser to threaten Israeli security. Israel decided to hold onto the Sinai as a bargaining chip for peace...