Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Isolationism carried into the 20th century is essentially a flight from reality. To label the critics and reappraisers of U.S. foreign policy neo-isolationists is equally escapist. Few things threaten U.S. power more seriously than excessive or misguided intervention; the Viet Nam War has done more than any other factor in recent years to reduce U.S. global influence. Seeking to rationalize U.S. commitments abroad is the very opposite of isolationism, because only such rationalization can restore and maintain the U.S. position in the world...
...community" would join to "safeguard the interests of countries whose economies depend to a large degree on primary products, particularly sugar." Rippon felt that the wording was sufficiently strong. After all, if there were any inclination to welsh on that promise once Britain was inside the Market, London could threaten to make things difficult for the one-crop French African countries that are protected by special trading arrangements...
...response at all. From a strategic point of view. Kissinger stated that the capability of response was vital to American security interests; from a technical viewpoint, he argued that it would be possible to choose a limit on the nuclear scale up to which it would be possible to threaten an escalation-and, if necessary, to carry out the threat...
...knows how many unexploded bombs and shells lie beneath the azure waters of the Suez Canal to threaten dredging operations-even if the Egyptians and Israelis should come to terms on reopening the waterway. The known obstacles, however, are relatively few: the sister passenger steamers Mecca and Ismailia, scuttled on orders of Egypt's late President Nasser at the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war; part of a pontoon bridge; two small tugs sunk downstream from the city of Ismailia; and the wreckage of a barge twelve miles north of Suez. The Egyptians calculate that they could reopen...
Investigators at Harvard have found that chemical pollutants seriously cripple the capacity of marine bacteria to find food, and so may threaten the essential role of bacteria in the ocean food chain...