Word: threatenings
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...starting to feel out its relationship with the President, hit Bush hard, firing off a letter to the White House warning that new talks were "urgently needed." E.U. Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom went further, rattling the sword of global sanctions. "I don't think this is the time to threaten," she said, "but we must be clear about the political implications...
Despite these defiant expectations, the possibility of increased unemployment could threaten the sector's healthy condition. For investors, the question is whether cheap mortgages can trump wider fears about the economy...
...Rams pulled Preston in favor of another freshman, Keith Ross, who was more than ready to stop the bleeding. Ross struck out senior infielder John Farmer looking to end the inning. The Crimson would not threaten again...
...have a care in the world. Far from it. His day job makes President Bush's look like a game of horseshoes. Jiang's country of 1.2 billion people is in a perennial state of crisis as it lurches through an epic transition to capitalism whose attendant social traumas threaten to literally tear the country apart. Millions of people will lose their jobs and a known way of life, cast into a Darwinian vortex of social uncertainty. And in their rage, they're increasingly willing to take to the streets, or sign up with what Beijing sees as dangerous millennarian...
...House were to miss this opportunity and waste the Senate’s hard work to find middle ground. It has taken nearly six years for the McCain-Feingold bill to advance just this far, and to upset the delicate compromises that have shaped it would only threaten the potential for any reform...