Word: threatens
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...scheduled by Cambridge theaters. Such license has enabled the societies to explore unusual and controversial aspects of the cinema and has led to the development of innovative programs and program formats among many thriving organizations. We feel that actions such as those of the OSTWS during the past weekend threaten the quality of future film society programs--and perhaps even their very existence--and undermine the concept of a free university...
...energy price increases on every aspect of the world economy." He warned: "Sovereign nations cannot allow their policies to be dictated or their fate decided by artificial rigging and distortion of world commodity markets ... Exorbitant prices can only distort the world economy, run the risk of worldwide depression, and threaten the breakdown of world order and safety...
...Central Intelligence Agency is not a threat to our liberties and never has been. It is composed of dedicated officers who have high standards of integrity and patriotism. Should anyone attempt to subvert the agency to purposes that would threaten our society, CIA members would be the first to sound the alarm...
...1930s, though, with the rise of powerful unions and the spread of reforms, it has been widely assumed that the health and safety of most workers has been adequately protected, at least in the United States. In many industries that is true enough. Yet death and crippling dangers still threaten to a dismaying degree even behind some of the most streamlined of modern industry's antiseptic factory façades. An official estimate by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare says that about 100,000 U.S. workers will die this year from occupational diseases. Hundreds of thousands more...
...them to be the same issues. Britain's problems, however, have grown considerably worse since then. The country not only faces what all party leaders agree is the worst economic crisis in 40 years, but also is suffering from a political malaise that some observers fear could threaten the existence of parliamentary democracy. It is, in short, a crisis of Churchillian dimensions -but no Winston Churchill is in sight. Instead, the voters will choose as their next Prime Minister a tired and familiar old face: either cunning, pragmatic Laborite Wilson, 58; schoolmasterly bachelor Edward Heath, 58, the Conservatives...