Word: threatens
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...reinstated a jury verdict against the Washington Post for libeling William Tavoulareas, a former president of Mobil Oil Corp. In so doing, the judges offered a seemingly astonishing definition of what may contribute to actual malice. In the view of many editors and First Amendment experts, the ruling could threaten the future of investigative reporting...
...negotiators reported little headway in prying open Japanese markets. Then Japan delivered the coup de grace, announcing a stunning 24% increase in auto exports to the U.S. this year, after the Reagan Administration had removed "voluntary" quotas. That ill-advised move prompted both houses of Congress last week to threaten trade retaliation against America's largest overseas commercial partner...
...advance.) Baghdad broadcast TV footage showing hundreds of dead Iranian troops in the battle zone. Even so, the Iranians did not mount the human-wave assault the Iraqis had been expecting for months, possibly because the latest offensive had limited objectives: to strengthen Iranian positions in the marshlands and threaten Iraq's highway link between Baghdad and Basra...
Incursive tactics such as the seizure of fees are opposed not just by lawyers who represent mobsters but by trial-attorney and civil liberties groups. They fear that such efforts threaten to undermine the rights of all criminal defendants. Judge Kaufman has a different concern, that unethical lawyers are part of a "disturbing trend within the profession." Says he: "Unquestioning advancement of a client's wishes at all costs is a destructive notion that undermines the foundations of the profession...
...trying to undo the problems of he public schools, thought, reformers threaten to introduce a new conformity in elementary and secondary education. The era in education that created Westside Alternative School is associated with a permissiveness and a quest for relevance that demolished intellectual rigor Projects that emphasized progressive education open condors, community schools, alternative or school-within-a-school programs--are being phased but their students directed back into mainstream education. When school boards consider projects beyond improvement of the local school, they reflect the values of 1980s material culture rather than free thought: the Los Angeles Board...