Word: threatens
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Lester Brown, who is one of America's best agricultural economists, does not try to cajole, shock, or threaten his audience into action. He does not preach apocalypse, or even seem to fear it. Instead, he warns that standards of living around the world must fall if the world's population keeps doubling every thirty-five years. In The Human Interest offers a sketch of today's population problems and a prescription for stabilization...
...purpose in putting up these announcements was not to enrage people or threaten traditional straight male supremacy, but simply to communicate with Gay and interested straight members of the community here at Harvard about a significant event...
Garrulous and profane, an almost compulsive talker, Strauss is a throwback to the era of the smoke-filled rooms. At a time when the far-out liberals and the deep-dyed conservatives threaten to pull the Democrats apart, Strauss is the great compromiser who is dedicated to strengthening the center, which he defines as the "progressive middle" of the party. The job is ticklish, but Strauss points out: "A poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns early how to survive...
Quirky amendments to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act also threaten to increase city costs by extending minimum-wage and overtime provisions to public employees next year. Policemen, for example, will be paid overtime for hours worked beyond 60 in any given week, even though some of the first 60 hours were spent in uniform working not for the city but for a department store as a guard. Salt Lake City Mayor EJ. Garn estimates that the amendments will cost his city $500,000 next year in increased pay alone and more than $3 million three years from...
TIME'S description of AFL-CIO lobbying [Nov. 25] is grossly inaccurate. We don't beg or threaten. We expect members of Congress to keep the promises they made to the voters...