Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not be reelected in 1980 is not based upon a belief that the Republican nominee, most likely Ronald Reagan at this point, will snatch the reins of power away from the President in the general election. This is not considered conceivable today. It is, rather, based upon the threat within the President's own Democratic Party. The scenario has as its main cast of characters Carter and his possible Democratic challengers, California Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.). One or more of these men, many observers...
...fire broke out about midnight, about 30 minutes after a smaller blaze which devastated the basement annex of B.U.'s Mugar Library. During the science building fire, a B.U. dormitory on Commonwealth Ave. received a bomb threat...
...Boston University police declined to comment on the bomb threat or the possible connection between the three incidents
...instant access to the financial records of more than 125 million U.S. taxpayers. Alarmed at what seemed like another electronic-age assault on personal privacy, liberals and conservatives alike protested when the project was announced in 1975. Congress's Office of Technology Assessment denounced it as a "threat to the civil liberties, privacy and due process of taxpayers...
These fragile systems are under constant threat. And the situation could further deteriorate as searchers probe the ocean for oil. The fields that may soon be opened in the fertile fishing grounds of Georges Bank, writes Mrs. Simon, will have a 20-year life, during which there is a 91% chance of at least one major spill and near certainty that there will be more than 1,700 "nickel-and-dime" disasters. The public, she laments, seems unconcerned. "The trade-off is almost made - a viable coast for the plunge offshore, for a few more moments of twilight before...