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Word: threats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown proceeded to dispatch the Minutemen with a series of ground balls and strikeouts over the final three innings, with only a mild threat by UMass coming in the eighth...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Brown Twirls Crimson Nine Past UMass, 3-2 | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...easy or quick substitute for being prepared to confront the Russians when their aggressiveness creeps into areas we consider vital." Concluded Goodpaster: "You are right. This may be a kind of endless task. Thus we should not hold out the hope to the American people that the military threat from the Soviet Union is likely to fade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Can the U.S. Defend Itself? | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Thus, as Begin returned home, Israelis were faced with several hard choices. These included whether and how to try to resume the stalled peace negotiations with Egypt, how to deal with what promised to be a redoubled threat against them from the Palestinian guerrillas, whether to reconsider their stand against yielding any of the occupied West Bank, and how to improve their testy relations with Washington. Probably the touchiest question of all was whether these decisions should continue to be entrusted to the nine-month-old Begin government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Hard Choices for Israel | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...moved into the glove boxes through an air lock. Everything that leaves will pass through a steam sterilizer and a disinfectant bath; the very air in the boxes will flow through an incinerator before it is vented outside. Even if an altered organism escapes, it should pose no threat. All P-4 experiments must be conducted with a weakened strain of E. coli that cannot survive outside the special conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Leakproof Lab | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...when spring came North again this year, it brought the threat of disaster to Kentucky and its $1 billion race horse industry, the world's most celebrated. The danger: a newly discovered venereal disease known as CEM (for contagious equine metritis), which infected at least 21 mares and five top stallions, created bitter dissension among the tight clan of owners and even caused federal and international repercussions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blighted Spring in the Bluegrass | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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