Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news that the party's own survey shows only 7% of voters now regard themselves as strong Republicans and only 18% as Republicans at all: 42% of Americans say they are Democrats, and 40% independents. President Ford warned against "fanatic factions" and "elite guards" who would threaten the rebuilding of the party and could contribute to "the death of the two-party system so vital to this nation." Rockefeller sounded the same note to the delegates, saying: "I don't want to see one party of the right and one of the left. I want a party that...
Even if a clear decision has been made to develop professional programs for public service, a number of pitfalls will remain which can threaten the realization of this objective. The first of these problems is the risk of devoting disproportionate emphasis to formal analytic techniques. Among the subjects I have described, statistics, economics and the related methods of analysis may appear to have more content because they are more precise and reflect a more developed body of knowledge. Teachers in these fields are likely to complain that a professional curriculum allows them too little time to convey an adequate understanding...
...letter addressed to Medical Area supervisors, most of whom are professors or administrators. Steiner asked them not to threaten employees or to promise them extra benefits if they either supported or opposed the union...
...precisely in their conflicts with "normal" society's behavioral expectations. After all, the official line on civilization is that the society draws the line around the scope of an individual's actions in the interests of order and that the individual must sublimate his or her impulses which threaten that order. Mabel crossed that line by being too open or, as Cassavetes put it: "She had an idea that put her in an institution." As for the way they dealt with each other, society told Nick to commit her, so he committed her. Their problem was not a universal problem...
Give-Away Policy. Meany's early Democratic favorite had been Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, whose record on domestic affairs earned the AFL-CIO's support. But Meany was angered by Jackson's support of the trade bill, fearing that it would threaten jobs in this country by increasing the flow of American capital and technology overseas. More important, Meany accused Jackson of "phonying around with Henry Kissinger," claiming that for almost two months the Senator had joined the Secretary of State in concealing a Soviet let ter rejecting a trade agreement with the U.S. that seemed...