Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While some say that a journalist should never give up editorial control because of a threat, I will testify from firsthand experience that in a hostage situation, nothing a reporter says or writes is worth a person's life...
...always been a threat as well as a promise. It entices the winter-weary by flaunting balmy temperatures, azure skies and buds bursting into blazing color. Children break out their bicycles, college students recline and pretend to study on the mall, and Americans of all ages tilt pale faces to catch the first warming rays...
Carter's economic-stimulus package has passed the House but is stalled in the Senate, chiefly because Democrats are still furious over Carter's threat to cancel 30 "wasteful" dams and other water projects (TIME, April 4). Members of the foreign policy Establishment are in an uproar over Carter's dealings with the Soviets; some critics argue that an overemphasis on human rights and naive negotiating tactics were the chief reasons that Moscow rejected his proposals on SALT (see THE WORLD). Finally, leaders of feminist and minority groups complain that Carter has not appointed enough women...
...push for efficiency and reduced costs, he increased the size of the police office staff from four to over 20. The police administration says the extra staff is needed to handle the new computer program, which is of course true. But the policemen see the increase as a threat. Computer programmers don't carry union cards, either...
...muscle-money, know-how and organization-to do the job. And their own survival is at stake: unless they expand into new sources of energy, they will die with the depletion of the world's oil and gas reserves. But as long as they face a serious threat of breakup, they will not make the investments required. In return for a pledge to stop dismemberment, Carter should extract a promise that the companies will devote a large share of the profits they would reap from price decontrol to exploration and development of solar, nuclear and synthetic fuels...