Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rabin embarrassment. In Tel Aviv last week, Peres stressed the complications involved in trying to hold Geneva talks this year. He agreed with Carter that no talks would be infinitely better than unsuccessful talks. He also warned that if the talks were begun but soon broke down, the threat of war could not be ruled...
Although they did not find a bomb, the police notified the occupants of the threat and told them they remained in the building at their own risk, Capt. Jack W. Morse of the University police said yesterday...
Last November, Hale Champion, former vice president for financial affairs, said that if the Kennedy School did not "catch-up" with its deficit soon, it would face "the threat of having to slow its development...
...purpose." The President told his audience he expected little applause?and he was not disappointed. He was interrupted, however, when he took a poke at the oil companies, declaring: "I happen to believe in competition, and we don't have enough of it right now." He held out the threat of divestiture?a bull-baiting word among the big oil companies?if data he sought from the companies showed that antitrust laws were being flouted...
...threat of logrolling is increased by the fact that pieces of Carter's program will go to eight or more committees (including Ways and Means, Commerce, Banking, Interior, Science and Technology, and Public Works). To make sure the House produces a comprehensive bill, O'Neill has created yet another committee-the Ad Hoc Committee on Energy. Normally, the regular committees would send their recommendations to the floor piecemeal, but the Ad Hoc Committee will package all of the recommendations into one omnibus bill. More important, perhaps, the new committee will have the power to offer its own amendments...