Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More strikes threaten. Aerospace industry bargaining has just got under way. Later this year there will be contract talks covering 500,000 railroad workers. In November, just in time for winter, 80,000 mine workers will be seeking a new contract. They may try to hold down output so that supplies could fall perilously low and managements feel pressure to settle generously...
...could be an evolution explosion in the wet season," said Herpetologist Michael Tyler. "It could get into billa-bongs [river pools] and replace the native species." Worse still, added John Lake, director of the Northern Territory's Department of Forestry, Fisheries, Wild Life and National Parks, "it would threaten our smaller native species-and that's equivalent to threatening the koala and the platypus...
...book is full of Freeling's virtues. There are secondary characters so swiftly and seductively sketched that they threaten to run off into novels all their own. Still, most Freeling fans may wonder if much is gained by introducing the new hero. A Dressing of Diamond is likely to send them figuratively off to Strasbourg to stone the author's house and shout, "Bring back Van der Valk!" The judgment may be a scrap premature. Freeling is not quite the chameleon poet of crime he thought he was, but he remains a writer worth waiting...
...language the Albers use, straight lines and geometric figures arranged with such machine-like precision that evidence of the artist's hand is almost totally effaced, would threaten to create a world so cerebral and austere that it would seem to be sterile were it not for the extraordinary sensitivity of each artist to the nuances of color and--particularly in the works of Anni Albers--texture...
...live cattle has risen from $37 per 100 lbs. two weeks ago to $44.57 last week, and hogs in the last month have gone from $25 to $38.57 -still below their peaks last August. In response to farm-belt complaints that prices previously had dropped so low as to threaten bankruptcies among some animal raisers and feedlot operators, the Government is buying up $100 million of "excess" beef and pork for use in its school-lunch program, and has asked Australia and New Zealand to "voluntarily" restrain meat exports...