Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inner cities give evidence to this neglect. Drugs threaten to make life unliveable for millions of ordinary people who fear to walk down the street in their neighborhoods. AIDS, poverty and homelessness are related problems that have been overlooked and imperil the lives of many Americans...
America has fought a long and hard war for global democracy since the days of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04. Now the nation must turn inward and correct some of the many problems that threaten to destroy what we have fought to preserve...
...field of public policy, no one is better than Rifkin in the martial arts of social activism: lawsuits, petitions, debates, lectures and media manipulations. Each year the three attorneys on the staff of his Washington- based Foundation on Economic Trends file about six lawsuits and threaten more. Among other causes, he has battled surrogate motherhood, animal patenting and agricultural experiments involving open-air use of genetically altered bacteria. He tried to delay the launch of the Galileo spacecraft by warning that a shuttle explosion could rain plutonium on Florida. In Wisconsin he has helped start a boycott of dairy products...
Despite the tension, the scene became like something from a TV situation comedy, with the rebels enjoying a feast of hotel food and the U.S. soldiers resolutely glowering from behind their barricades. Neither side made an attempt to threaten the other. It was, said one of the advisers, a "Mexican standoff," during which they talked to the rebels periodically. "At times it was friendly, at times tense," said another American. Finally, the Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, Gregorio Rosa Chavez, mediated the release of the occupants of the hotel and the escape of the rebels. The U.S. soldiers, though, refused...
That de Klerk is attacking right-wing intolerance is heartening. But de Klerk, like Gorbachev in Europe, has also unleashed strong political forces that threaten to carry him away. Unlike the Soviet premier, however, de Klerk is offering only superficial changes, not legitimate reforms. Unless he is willing to offer Blacks an equal political role, he may discover that his policies of "balance" have expiration dates...