Word: threatens
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...inept handling of these proposals is extraordinary: few of them even remotely threaten the existing structure. The failure to implement these stop-gap proposals or essentially preliminary measures is chiefly a reflection of power interests within the University or of general Faculty unconcern regarding change. Were any attempt made to develop a coherent philosophy of education for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, much less to arrange some "grand commission," students, faculty and administrators would have to face at least the following issues: to what degree a university education actually serves the individual; the value of a university education in modern society...
While isolated detention villages are not precisely prisons, Bejerot admits that his proposed detention villages and his generally tough approach to drug control are highly controversial because they threaten the civil liberties of drug users. But he warns that popular outrage over escalating addiction and addiction-linked crime could lead to something even worse: repressive "semifascistic" measures that would affect not just addicts and criminals but large numbers of ordinary citizens...
Actually Morton cannot yet issue construction permits because he is under a court injunction that requires him to give two weeks' notice to environmentalists who are already suing him in an effort to stop the pipeline. Those suits charge that the pipeline will damage the tundra and threaten wildlife, so it will finally be up to the courts to decide how, when, where, or indeed whether the pipeline will be built...
President Nixon has said that his actions do not provide the Soviets with any reason to cancel the Moscow summit, because--as Nixon thinks he knows well--none could possibly threaten the Soviet Union's "legitimate" interests. However, when he told the nation that the North Vietnamese had been totally intransigent at the secret negotiations last Tuesday in Paris, Nixon did more than just imply that the Soviets--who had promised Dr. Kissinger that North Vietnam would negotiate seriously--had failed to keep their word...
Speaking to a gathering of Afrikaners, Prime Minister John Vorster took the Boerehaat (Boer hate) campaign a step further. "Because of the things that threaten us," he cried, "we need a militant youth." Then he quoted a line from an old Boer war song, "I've always been afraid the English soldiers would catch me," adding: "If there's any catching to be done, we will do it, and the time has now come...