Word: threatenings
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...woes of El Salvador. The military situation is deteriorating. The March 28 elections, which the U.S. had hoped would strengthen the centrist Duarte government, are in danger of being disrupted by the left. The rebels have begun a new offensive. And the harsh militaristic leaders of the far right threaten to gain power in a situation that is becoming more polarized, leaving the U.S. with fewer and fewer options. The Administration's policy now is simply to wait and hope that the elections progress smoothly and produce a government with the power-and the desire-to pursue the social...
...Kaufman, chief economist of the investment banking firm of Salomon Bros., predicts that as a rising deficit bumps up against the borrowing demands of businesses and individuals, "the downward trend of interest rates will probably reverse before midyear, and in the second half, long-term rates will once again threaten their peaks of 1981." Worse, there are widespread fears that the actual deficit will soar beyond Reagan's projections of $98.6 billion this fiscal year and $91.5 billion in fiscal 1983. Alice Rivlin, Congressional Budget Office director, last week revealed grim...
...Zewinski said Giatrelis did not threaten Epstein, but was himself abused by the tenant, adding that Epstein "poked Giatrelis in the chest and shoved him," Zewinski said...
...long as Khun Sa did not threaten Thailand's national security, Bangkok refrained from direct attacks on him. But last year he made a deal with Burma's Communist Party to provide its cadres with rice in return for opium. The Communists soon became a major supplier. Khun Sa's army in turn acted as a conduit that enabled Communists to establish a toehold near the Thai border...
...lobbying tips in the training packed, which supplement a training meeting held last week at Suffolk University, instruct students not to threaten, not to act as if you know it all and not to beg "Over lunch at a trucking stop in Connecticut, students discussed some supplementary strategies