Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turn to the possibility of active College endorsement: minority student groups are hard pressed to bear the burden singlehandedly of organizing these valuable activities. Harvard College, which conducts extensive minority recruitment programs, owes these same students a supportive welcome when they arrive: without this follow-up, earlier recruiting pitches threaten to dissolve into hypocrisy...
...turn to the possibility of active College endorsement; minority student groups are hard pressed to bear the burden singlehandedly of organizing these valuable activities. Harvard College, which conducts extensive minority recruitment programs, owes these same students a supportive welcome when they arrive; without this follow-up, earlier recruiting pitches threaten to dissolve into hyprocrisy...
...announced that it was withdrawing the two AW ACS surveillance planes that it had sent to the area a month ago in the hope that Mitterrand would intervene directly. The Administration feared that if Chad fell to Gaddafi, the Libyan leader would be in a position to threaten such U.S. allies as Egypt and, especially, the Sudan. The AW ACS planes never took part in the Chadian war, but they became an unfortunate symbol of the differences between Paris and Washington over how to deal with the crisis...
Without specifically mentioning the U.S. decision to send a naval flotilla to the coast of Nicaragua and some 5,000 troops to participate in military exercises in Honduras, De la Madrid warned the U.S. that regional stability might be endangered "by shows of force that threaten to touch off a conflagration." Reagan, who was dressed in a blue guayabera, reaffirmed the tough U.S. policy in Central America. "We believe people should be able to determine their own solutions," he declared, "and that's why we've responded to calls for help from certain of our Latin American neighbors...
...serious question: How to safeguard information stored inside computers? The potential for fraud is awesome. The American banking system alone moves more than $400 billion between computers every day. Corporate data banks hold consumer records and business plans worth untold billions. Military computers contain secrets that, if stolen, could threaten U.S. security. Many of these machines are hooked into the telephone system, which enables them to communicate with other computers and with users in remote locations. But as the 414s have demonstrated, anyone with one of the popular new microcomputers has the potential, however remote, to unlock the secrets contained...