Word: threatenings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...committee. The Texas regents tried to bar Boyle from representing groups against the university. In turn, the lawyer argued that the regents had violated state laws by adopting a new rule without adequate notice. If the regents sustain the ban at their meeting this week, Boyle's supporters threaten to sue them in federal court for violating the students' right to counsel...
...agreed to waive the antitrust laws for U.S. participants. The companies are confronting representatives of the main oil-producing nations: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Venezuela. In their quest for money the producing countries can bargain with muscle because they can always threaten to cut off shipments to Europe, which gets 85% of its oil from them, and to Japan, which depends on the Middle East for 91% of its supplies. They also have an intriguing if not altogether logical argument for higher prices: for every gallon of oil, they collect just...
Bilharzia, a parasite carried by water snails, has crept into Lake Nasser and the irrigation canals, infecting countless Egyptians. Salt washed out of previously unirrigated land has been carried downstream to increase the saline content of the eastern Mediterranean and threaten sea life...
...hardly a siege, and certainly nothing like Corregidor or Leningrad. Still, over the past two months Communist troops have managed to threaten Phnom-Penh with isolation by severing some of its main links with the outside world. The Cambodian capital's plight is an acute embarrassment to the Lon Nol regime, whose eager but not always effective 160,000-man army has been unable to reopen the vital arteries without outside help. Last week, in what has become a familiar pattern since much of the Indochina war shifted to Cambodia last spring, Phnom-Penh...
Particular stress was laid on the budgetary problems that Harvard and American universities in general face. At the morning panel, Francis H. Burr '35, Senior Fellow of the Corporation, said that deficit spending and continued shortage of funds would increasingly threaten the status of private universities in the next 20 years...