Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Easterns this year with an ankle injury compiled a 7-0-1 record this season and is expected to win considerably more matches next year. Jim Strathmeyer, who received this year's Ames award for the most improved wrestler, should be over the first year nervousness to threaten the East...
...LAST several weeks legislation has been introduced into Congress that, if passed, will severely threaten Harvard's economic security. We oppose the general thrust of a national program that simultaneously deprives colleges and universities of previously taken-for-granted Federal aid and destroys the tax incentive of private donors to replace the lost funding...
...results confounded the pundits, who predicted that opposition gains would be great enough to block Allende's legislative program and threaten him with impeachment...
...become real, the effects can be unsettling. To the U.S., the most disturbing effect is of course economic. Shortly after the devaluation of the dollar last month, President Nixon instructed Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz to get a "fairer shake" for U.S. trade, even if he had to threaten protectionism. Faced with a massive and seemingly irreversible balance of payments deficit, the U.S. has begun to demand trade and monetary concessions-and to question whether Western Europe is carrying its share of the common defense burden...
Spiraling prices could make European exports uncompetitive in world markets. The consequent reduction in demand would then lead to the unemployment that workers fear. But rising prices do not yet threaten the EEC's export performance. In part, that is because about half of its members' trade is within the Community, where inflation runs at roughly the same rate from country to country. Moreover, proximity of markets provides a cost barrier against imports from faraway countries like the U.S. and Japan...