Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students did take the Cold War and the threat of communist expansion--brought home by the more immediate threat of the draft--seriously. But few, such as Monroe H. Freedman '52, now dean of Hofstra Law School and a member of the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union, did not accept the government's line on Korea. Freedman recalls disapproving of some of the Soviet Union's policies, both domestic and foreign, but he says he felt then and now that "the Cold War was a fraud and the threat of internal communism, which was the more serious...
...University of Pennsylvania anthropologist, voted for former president Dwight D. Eisenhower while Freedman was snaking through Cambridge on a sound truck campaigning for former Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-Ill.). Harding, who says he has subsequently "done a complete turnaround," perceived the mood then as "one of threat from the outside. Czechoslovakia had been overthrown a few years earlier and we were all genuinely afraid of being surrounded by communists. Sending troops to Korea made sense at the time, although we were terrified at the idea of actually going over there and shooting people. It wasn't like Vietnam where...
...lending, mostly by private American financial institutions, heightens the possibility of a series of defaults that could cause panic to spread through international banking. So far, banks have managed to avoid this danger by renewing the loans or stretching out payments for some of the poorest countries. Yet the threat remains...
...announced again, with characteristic vigor. "I'm rarin' to go," she declared to supporters at her kickoff rally. "I'm good from top to bottom and every other part in between." Most Gotham handicappers are willing to believe her: Bella is rated a strong primary threat to Mayor Abraham Beame...
...commercial bank, thus effectively adding reserves to the banking system and lowering the federal funds rate. Selling securities draws reserves out of the banking system and drives up the rate. How have Burns and his colleagues been using their powers? Liberals charge that the Federal Reserve has overemphasized the threat of inflation. They are concerned that any trimming of the growth of the money supply could slow the economic expansion and pinch off any chance of pulling unemployment much below its current 7% level soon...