Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Said the wife of a gas station owner: "What bothers me is that we keep doing the best we can, but we're not sure others are doing the best they can." "Others" are mostly blacks, who, as Coles was among the first to point out, seem to threaten the hard-won status and economic gains of the working class. But the Middle Americans are also ambivalent. One moment, the stereotyped language pours out offensively; then prejudice gives way to sympathy. Railed a factory worker: "I get sick and tired of the niggers, always pushing, pushing. But who really...
...form is all. His only discernible goal as President is to avoid risk to his institution and minimize conflict which might threaten it by making cosmetic concessions which divide and pacify the constituencies he must manipulate. His change in Harvard's sex-ratio is an excellent example of this tyle of pacification. Bok has no desire to compromise Harvard's honored principle of male supremacy by making admission 1 to 1 or sex-blind. Demonstrations, petitions, letters, lawsuits--nothing will force him to admit that women deserve an equal place in the University. But neither will he make a profitless...
Suffering from cold shooting both nights, the Crimson failed to seriously threaten either opponent though it was never out of either contest until the closing minutes...
...Presidency have been a persuasive of the leitmotif of his '68 : "Nixon's the One!" He may not be the want, but he is the one you're with. At --writing a piece on the first anniversary State was one of my own--the Nixon affliction seems to threaten to worsen from the chronic to the malignantly permanent...
...will permit the disallowed balance -that is, about 3.7%-to go into effect along with the regular second-year increase, thus letting some 200,000 aerospace workers end up at the wage levels originally negotiated. In the interim, they will lose about $340 each in wages. Union officials, however, threaten to contest the board's rejection in court...