Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, two long range issues threaten to be the source of conflict in the years to come: reform of the structure by which Harvard is governed; reform of the curriculum...
...aesthetic judgment. McCarthy had to be dealt with, for he too challenged the subtly-honed instrument of the liberal state, dragging it into the mire of recognizable personality. As Pusey says, those were not pleasant times. He finds them analogous to the present because he is once again threatened by voices which claim to speak for the people. Yet it is impossibly ignorant to say that because both right and left threaten the liberal center, they are the same...
Prospects for Nationalization: It is logical to expect problems. You are witness to what is happening right now. How people are drawing their money from banks, how businessmen threaten to close down their operations and leave the country. It all shows clearly that there are unpatriotic Chileans. It demonstrates what can be done by a social class of parasites who have never worked a day in their lives and have lived instead solely on speculation...
...Seventh's racial troubles are by no means caused only by black soldiers, who account for about 12% of the U.S. troops in West Germany. The blacks complain of harassment by white MPs and taunting by NCOs who threaten to "get me a nigger." Last week a Ku Klux Klan-style cross was found burning outside a Mannheim barracks: there have been at least two similar incidents at other Seventh Army bases. The Communist East German daily Neues Deutschland has seized on the cross burnings to portray the U.S. Army in Europe as a sort of K.K.K. expeditionary force...
Industry and the habits of urban man dominate the attention of environmentalists, but these familiar targets have rustic, yet serious, competition. The nation's 50 million pigs, 38 million cattle and 350 million chickens threaten other forms of life with vast quantities of bodily wastes. Livestock produce two billion tons of manure in the U.S. each year. In some states the situation has become so alarming that farmers, cattlemen and scientists are frantically searching for a way to clean up the landscape...