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Word: threatens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Predictions of scattered showers and thunderstorms threaten the 327th Commencement exercises this morning, as 1472 seniors prepare to receive their diplomas...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Showers Threaten As 1472 Graduate | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

...Growlers"and "bergy bits"threaten oil traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Iceberg Menace in Alaska | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...Carter, like his modern predecessors, resents congressional interference in U.S. foreign policy, particularly the post-Viet Nam laws that limit U.S. intervention abroad or the shipment of military aid to friendly governments resisting Communist insurgency. These restrictions in turn inhibit the U.S. in negotiations; by not being able to threaten the use of force, the U.S. loses its edge at the bargaining table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: F-15 Fight: Who Won What | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...international investment has been a one-way street, with the U.S. spending billions to set up plants and factories abroad. U.S. multinationals have spread prosperity around the globe, but they have also eliminated jobs for American workers at home, and this has increased pressure to block imports that further threaten American jobs. Now foreign investors are returning those jobs to the U.S., and that will make it more difficult for the U.S. to revert to nearsighted protectionism. Explains Economist Louis Wells of the Harvard Business School, an expert on multinationals: "When you've got a foreign-owned final assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Selling of America | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

What is the FBI'S role other than to ensure our country's freedom and be ever watchful of those who threaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1978 | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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