Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faced with the powerful pro-nuke combine of Government and Big Business, Clamshell seems to have opted for visibility in order to persuade others to support its cause. Its methods are commendable for orderliness and courtesy. The issues at stake are more serious than the indeed serious threat to marine life that you cite. The Clamshell protesters are crusaders in the vital cause of saving us and the generations to come from the terracide being risked by reckless and shortsighted officialdom...
...frustration the film's ending provokes may relate to Silver's inability to evoke successfully either the togetherness of the old days or the looming threat of the new. Neither is as real as the comfortable stasis the characters inhabit during most of the film. The dissolution at the close is supposed to lead to new beginnings for the characters, as couples or as individuals. But, sadly, the abrupt shift in mood it entails leaves us with a trace of Abbie and Harry's old anomie...
...police are concerned, Smith said, there is a big difference between possession of an ounce and two kilos as to what constitutes a threat to the Harvard community...
Smith said that the Harvard Police will not investigate drug traffic here unless it is a threat to the Harvard community--if an outsider, for instance, is dealing to the community. "Then the criminal element gets involved," he said, "and there is a potential danger of armed robbery or harm to students...
...answer is that they cannot find jobs, at least jobs they want to stay in and grow in. The problem has swollen to pandemic proportions since Lyricist Lee Adams wrote Kids for the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie in 1960. Massive youth unemployment-and the threat of social and political unrest that goes with it-now faces the world's industrialized democracies, adding to an already unnerving brew of mounting inflation, trade imbalances and looming energy shortages. So grave has the problem become that seven major world leaders, including President Jimmy Carter, resolved at the London economic summit...