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...
EASTERN EUROPE AND U.S.S.R. Water pollution and land reclamation threaten 26 species in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania and Poland. A leading Soviet conservationist asked in a recent issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Why do we see almost no flocks of cranes and geese in April? Why can we hear no quail in the fields in June?" One answer, as in much of the West, is the overuse of pesticides. Recently, two Soviet conservationists boldly and publicly accused none other than the Minister of Agriculture of illegal hunting in game preserves supposedly protected by the ministry...
Harsh and severe limits, built into the Constitution, hamper directionless bursts of student activism. Unlike their European counterparts, American students are unable to threaten or topple the government by simply moving into the streets. There are no instant crises, no mass plebiscite to organize. Congressional elections occur once every two years in November. Presidential elections, in which the political education of the nation takes place, occur once every four years...
...received the most votes would be the President. If no one got more than 40%-a situation that has happened only once in U.S. history*-there would be a runoff between the two who ranked highest. Majority will would always prevail, and a Wallace-like spoiler could no longer threaten to disrupt the system. In practice, however, things might not prove to be quite so simple. As the measure (which, if approved, would still have to be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures) passes to the Senate floor, opponents are arguing that it might well be even more...
Stander didn't find anything funny about studio attitudes toward his offscreen romances (which eventually led to five marriages). "They treated you like a piece of meat. If they didn't like you making it with a particular broad, they'd send some hood around to threaten you with castration...