Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ellsberg and Russo plan to sue Government officials for $2,000,000 in damages and expenses (their legal costs already total $900,000). For this process, they threaten to subpoena the President himself. In that, they are not likely to succeed, but the Pentagon papers trial, in another guise, may be in the courts and the headlines for months or years to come...
...that you cannot allow Communism to take over Indochina, but you decided to be friends with China and the Soviet Union, the two most powerful Communist countries in history. Why do you accept friendship with Chinese and Soviet Communism and consider Indochinese Communism as dangerous? Indochina does not threaten the U.S. in any way. You are very far away. Why don't you let us live our lives? If we want to be Communists, why do you refuse us such a right...
...sales rose too-to 5.7%, or .5% more than a year ago, by one preliminary estimate. Generally, high profits are good news: they fuel the engine of a free-enterprise economy. But in this case, the gains are one more sign of an overheating boom -and, more specifically, they threaten to start the wage-price spiral whirling again by prompting labor leaders to make outsize pay demands...
...gasoline shortages appear (see ENVIRONMENT), and further price increases threaten, how many miles of travel a car gets out of a gallon is once again of concern to U.S. drivers. Moving nimbly to the aid of motorists, the Government's Environmental Protection Agency last week published a fuel-economy rundown on every 1973 auto, foreign or domestic, sold in the U.S. The results were painfully predictable: gas mileage drops with every pound of weight and power accessory. Says Eric Stork, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mobile Source Air Pollution Control: "Far and away the easiest way of reducing fuel consumption...
...somewhere in the middle of the city and unwanted, remembering missed football tackles, lost fights, the contempt of strangers, the sound of laughter from behind shut doors. I held my valuables in my right hand, my literal identification. None of it was irreplaceable, but to cast it off would threaten my essence, the shadow of myself that I could see on the floor, my name...