Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tinkering with the heart, mind and body of America. In the absence of a threat of war, and with most pocketbooks reasonably well filled, those subjects are looming again as pre-eminent national concerns. Almost every day Califano is in the midst of the skirmishes on abortion, student loans, school desegregation, treatment of the handicapped, hospital costs, welfare reform, social security, smoking, drug control and dozens of other issues that touch the daily existence of every one of the 218 million people...
...serious social problem in Britain today." To 46%, race relations were getting worse, while 49% wanted the government to offer immigrants financial help to leave the country. Unquestionably Mrs. Thatcher had seized an issue of particular appeal to traditionally Labor blue-collar workers, who see the immigrants as a threat to their jobs, and to a large segment of the British public who resent the intrusion of a different culture...
...firm, RCA, American companies were slow to realize the revolutionary impact that transistors and semiconductors were destined to have. As a result, the market was opened to lower-priced foreign models that exploited the new technology. Given that first foothold, Japanese manufacturers have ever since been a growing threat to the U.S. color-TV industry...
...only $90, only half the population is literate, almost half the deaths reported are among children under 14, and the majority of homes have no sanitary facilities, no running water and no electricity. Observers attribute the end of the national strike just over a week ago to the threat of starvation facing many Nicaraguans--they simply could not hold out any longer...
...recall another season like this in 23 years of coaching," he said after a 38-36 home loss to Columbia--a game that was interrupted when police evacuated Jadwin gym four minutes from the end, following a bomb threat...