Word: threatenings
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...assessing his own state's topsy-turvy politics, but his comment could be applied equally well to races elsewhere. Suddenly the power of incumbency-long an axiom of American politics-no longer seems to apply. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Midwest, where revolts by voters threaten to turn three veteran politicians out of office...
...aware of the attempts on his life and they should be stopped. He added: "I said something like 'Those plots start to set a very bad precedent, a very serious one, that could become a boomerang against the authors of those actions.' But I did not mean to threaten by that. I did not mean by that that we were going to take measures ?similar measures?like a retaliation...
...does the device threaten U.S. security? The answer, NSA replied in the spirit of catch-22, is classified. The inventors have invested $30,000 in their project and received nothing in return. Complains Raike: "We feel that the Government has illegally seized our property...
...view, widely supported in the scientific community, has now been expanded and documented by a U.S. researcher. In an American Scientist article timed to precede the announcement next month of the annual Nobel awards, Columbia University Sociologist Harriet Zuckerman warns that the guiding policies of the Stockholm selection committees "threaten to undermine the great prestige and legitimacy" of the prizes...
...insurance coverage whatsoever. Seven million families this year will incur medical expenses that will exceed 15 per cent of their total income. Fifty-one million Americans live in areas without sufficient access to health care services. Medical costs in general are running wild and Medicaid costs in particular threaten to bankrupt your states. Life expectancies vary widely by race and income levels, and infant mortality rates are 50-100 per cent higher in your urban poverty centers than in the nation as a whole...