Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dependence on them, is offset by the tighter script of Woman, many scenes are still too protracted and improvisory. The film is nicely framed by two dinner scenes in which Mabel gamely attempts to role-play her Image of sanity. But there are scenes within the film which threaten to wander out of the theater...
...avoided an election--by disqualifying on technical grounds the petition of a distinguished Harvard alumnus! But now, disqualifying individual petitions is too tedious a task for them, so they plan to preserve their salaries and control by spending $15,000 (of the members' money) to eliminate the elections which threaten them so, even at the risk of violating chapter 156B sec. 50 of the Mass. Gen. Laws, which provides that "no class (of directors) shall be elected for...a longer period than four years, and the term of office of at least one class shall expire in each year...
...Kissinger's basic strategy for dealing with the oil cartel is 1) to threaten the OPEC countries with a break in prices in the future as the consuming countries gain greater energy independence, and 2) to hold out to the producers the promise of stable income over the long term if they agree to cooperate with the needs of the consumers...
...whom they find offensive. When such a speaker has been invited to the campus by one group, other groups may seek to dissuade the inviters from proceeding. But it is a punishable offense against the principles of the University, for the objectors to coerce others physically or to threaten violence...
...population explosion does not directly threaten Russia, Japan, Europe, Australia, Canada or the United States, the "rich nations." As they industrialized they broke the fertility barrier. Most of them are growing less than one per cent a year, and can expect to reach zero population growth within a generation or two. At worst population pressure will cause job and housing shortages. For the rest of the world, however, population growth is a problem on an entirely different scale. They are growing on average two and a half per cent a year, which works out to twelve times a century...