Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Penn used a man advantage to threaten the Crimson in the last seconds, but the Crimson effectively killed the penalty and avoided overtime...
Italy has pushed its modernization none too soon. The country's trade unions recently called a half-day general strike, and two weeks ago electrical workers caused a four-hour brownout in Rome. The unions threaten more strikes unless the government rapidly improves housing and schools. Labor trouble in the months ahead could slow production and start still another capital flight. But if Prime Minister Emilio Colombo can keep the country tranquil by rapidly streamlining the economy, 1971 may be a vintage year for Italian business. The European Common Market Executive Commission predicts that, barring domestic discord, Italy will...
AMERICA'S families are in trouble?trouble so deep and pervasive as to threaten the future of our nation," declared a major report to last week's White House Conference on Children. "Can the family survive?" asks Anthropologist Margaret Mead rhetorically. "Students in rebellion, the young people living in communes, unmarried couples living together call into question the very meaning and structure of the stable family unit as our society has known it." The family, says California Psychologist Richard Parson, "is now often without function. It is no longer necessarily the basic unit in our society...