Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protests are the opening salvo in what promises to be a hardball campaign to force the Atlanta-based chain to stop selling products made from old-growth wood. The environmentalists threaten to follow up with newspaper ads, frequent pickets and civil disobedience at selected stores around the U.S.--unless the company agrees. "Home Depot is the biggest old-growth retailer in the world," says Randall Hayes, president of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a leader of the campaign. "Stopping them from selling old growth is the most important thing we can do to save these ancient cathedral forests and these...
Raising concerns about the 2000 Census, Narasaki said Asian Pacific Americans are disproportionately undercounted and proposals to exclude non-citizens from the census may threaten the Asian Pacific Americans' access to government funding...
...include pink dolphins, bigger-than-life insects and creatures that look so absurd they're almost cute. Naturally, the famous Amazonian piranhas and other such dangerous beasts show up and startle the audience, if not with their teeth then with their alien appearances. The mountains tower so high they threaten to break the sky-dome of the screen, the forest envelopes the viewer on all sides with its strange beauty and noise, and the audience can truly be lost in the wilderness of South America...
...losing missions in teaching and research. Once, Medicare payments and privately insured patients paid for everything, no questions asked. Now HMOs question everything. The Balanced Budget Act, passed by Congress last year, will mean big cuts in Medicare payments, which, when added to the pervasive weight of managed care, threaten to suffocate places like Duke...
...then to love, an emotion that fills Kassima with terror and dread. Within a recent span of 10 months, both of her teenage sons were killed by gang violence in her Pittsburgh neighborhood and their father died of aids he contracted in prison. After she sees a gang member threaten Robert on a playground basketball court, Kassima decides that he is another doomed black male and tells him, "I've loved my last dead man. Can't take it anymore... Love you but I got to cut you loose, baby...