Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exchange, part of the third of the televised Nixon-Frost interviews, was fascinating. Nixon insisted that when "a threat to internal peace and order of significant magnitude" was involved, a President could readily use otherwise illegal acts, including burglaries (he preferred the euphemism "warrantless entries"), wiretaps, mail openings, and IRS and FBI harassment against any "violence-prone" dissenters. But if this was so vital to national security, why not ask Congress to make such acts legal? "In theory," said Nixon, "this would be perfect, but in practice, it won't work." It would alert the targeted dissenters, he said...
...nearly gagged trying to say some of Lucas' lines. " 'I thought I recognized your foul stench when I was brought aboard, Governor Tarkin,' is not everyday conversation," says Fisher. "There were times when I issued a threat to tie George up and make him repeat his own dialogue," adds Harrison Ford, 35, who plays Han Solo, the cynical mercenary captain of the Millennium Falcon. "I told him: 'You can't say that stuff. You can only type it.' But I was wrong. It worked." The only actor whom Lucas allowed to change anything...
...times of recession, nations inevitably turn toward protectionism as a means of shielding jobs from the threat of foreign goods. Even though the West and Japan are now recovering from the deepest economic slump since the 1930s, protectionist tendencies remain powerful. In an effort to defuse those tendencies in the U.S.-where they are strong in Congress and among the trade unions-President Carter, a committed free trader, is trying to solve trade problems one at a time. The unpleasant alternative would have been to resort to high tariff barriers that might set off a global trade war and raise...
...figured I should start off with an embarrassing moment that truly happened to me, though. It's a very small incident but very peculiar. Last fall, one night about two o'clock in the morning, someone phoned in a bomb-threat to Eliot House. Every resident of the House piled out of his or her bed and into the courtyard, as those nightmarish klaxon-horns which double for fire-alarms resounded through the rooms. Everyone left, that is, except me. I became, that instant, the first non-drugged person in history to sleep through a bomb-threat, and those...
...walked up to a few women and asked about their school, where they were from, why they were there. He was genuinely curious, and he seemed so confused that most women talked to him freely. He was hardly a threat. Walter, standing against the wall, did not understand why Tom was doing so well. But Tom had no ulterior motives. As soon as he had found out all he wanted from one woman he moved on and talked to another. A few trusted him quite far, because he seemed so harmless. They told him they did not like getting...