Word: threatenings
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...with a threat is that you've got to be ready to come through with the "or else." You also have to believe that neither party wants the "or else." You couldn't be sure of that. Another point to remember is that it was unnecessary to threaten the negotiators to get them to come to an agreement. They reached an agreement, which was rejected by the U.M.W. bargaining council. To whom, then, should we have addressed the threat...
...usually startled to find two-thirds of the seats empty; a transcendent tedium often reigns. As half a dozen members attend to the debate at hand, others read, amble, joke or even doze. It is not beyond the frontiers of possibility that a member might show up drunk, or threaten to punch another member. Into such an atmosphere, TV cameras would arrive like censorious missionaries landing on a pagan island...
...indexes, the rate was 10%, which reaches the dreaded double-digit range. The increase was exaggerated by ice and snow that snarled rails and roads in January, leading to shortages that jacked up food prices. But wholesale prices have been rising rapidly enough in the past few months to threaten more jarring consumer-price jumps. Julius Shiskin, the savvy Labor Department statistician who updated the CPI, concedes that the January jump is "cause for concern...
...Greene's patented Manichaean depressives, those saintly sinners whose jobs (crime, the priest hood, spying) allow the author to compose variations on his favorite themes: the pervasiveness of evil and the saving graces of kindness, love and even disloyalty. For Greene, disloyalty to institutions that threaten his ideals of individualism and humanism is a privilege, if not a right...
...little more success in the second half, after we switched to a one-on-one defense," first team All-Ivy selection Wendy Carle said. "But we could only cut into their lead, not threaten it," she added...