Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the 9 p.m. curfew, the only sound is the chatter of small-arms fire punctuated by the thump of rockets and howitzer shells. By day, the city is ever more pathetic and dangerous. There are serious food shortages. Men dressed in army uniforms use M-79s to threaten shopkeepers, then take whatever they wish. Children who sell gasoline by the pint fight among themselves to pour their wine bottle's worth into the tank of a car for a few hundred riels, about 300. The homeless, the maimed, the wretched, the exhausted squat on the streets, huddle under...
Speaking at the Law School Forum, Allende gave a detailed description of CIA involvement in the 1973 coup to an audience of over 900 people, and said that CIA activities "stimulate fascist governments which threaten democracy and consequently world peace...
...would then come down, just as the prices of other commodities would come down." He advocated closer relationships between the industrial and oil-producing nations and insisted that the last thing the Saudi government wanted to do was cause a further increase in the price of oil "that would threaten the economies of our friends in the U.S. or Europe...
...properly concerned about proposed congressional spending plans. Combined with the tax cut, they could produce a hair-curling federal budget deficit of $100 billion or more for the next fiscal year (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Ford said that any such deficit would be "too dangerous to permit," since it would "threaten another vicious spiral of runaway double-digit inflation." He vowed to resist any attempt by Congress to pass spending programs that would produce a deficit any higher than $60 billion...
...with these matters of duty. The obligation is a burden, but the brother takes a grave pride in helping his sister's old lover. What is canny in this movie is the way these various obligations are made to snake around each other, then abruptly thrust inward to threaten and destroy. Unfortunately, these serpentine strands also cause a great deal of confusion and hob ble the movie just when it should be moving briskly along...