Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brazenly sending its Cuban allies into Africa to stir up trouble and challenge American interests. Many treaty supporters, including Senator Henry Jackson, are understandably concerned that a ceding of the canal may be interpreted as another American retreat. But the U.S. is hardly backing down from a Soviet threat; it is rising to the occasion of settling a dispute with an ally. If it is a sign of weakness to capitulate to an enemy, it may well be an indication of strength to make timely concessions to a friend...
...weeks last semester, Glanz gave up her keys to the teachers' lounge, traded in her office for a locker, and started going to classes. Students did not see her as a threat. "I wasn't 17, I wasn't out looking for a boyfriend, and I wasn't trying to get into college," she explained...
...that the Government would take in order to set an example of anti-inflationary restraint for the rest of the nation. Some probable highlights of the talk: > A pledge to hold the federal budget for fiscal 1979 within the targeted $60 billion range. That would at least imply a threat to veto any spending bill that seems likely to push the deficit higher. Leading candidate for a Presidential turndown: a farm bill that would pay grain and cotton farmers subsidies on an escalating scale for keeping land out of production. The prices that Americans pay for food are likely...
...advisers agree that the President must scale down the federal pay raise if he is to have any hope of getting unions in the private sector to take his pleas for wage-price restraint seriously; federal workers are widely believed to be overfed and underworked. And the threat of escalating wage demands has become very real in the wake of the boost in pay and benefits-estimated as high as 39% over three years-that the White House swallowed as the price of ending the coal strike. Teamster President
...University reassigned carpenters to jobs outside their craft. Claiming a shortage of carpentry work, Harvard asked some of the carpenters to work as painters, lampers and roofers. The University stressed that the reassignments were "temporary, and involved no cut in pay;" however, the carpenters saw the move as a threat to their job security...