Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future, with no certainty that such sources will be available when present reserves of oil and gas go into steep decline. And the use of coal and nuclear-fission power is not expanding nearly rapidly enough to fill the looming energy gap. Hence, the U.S. faces the terrible threat of closed factories and cold, dark homes unless its politicians can master a new kind of challenge: taking painful steps now to grapple with a crisis that will not reach its most dangerous point until long after the President, his aides and most of the Congressmen who will vote...
...surge are expected to toughen Giscard's style. "He will have to be more like De Gaulle, more authoritative," said one of his ministers. "Now that the election has identified the opponent on the left, Giscard will have to commit himself to the fight." To meet the leftist threat, Giscard will probably have to join forces with Chirac-though it remains to be seen just how much unity they will be able to achieve...
...coffee boom will last. Some savvy coffee growers in southern Brazil are replanting in soybeans, wheat and sugar cane. They fear that the current coffee shortage will lead other farmers to overplant, thereby producing a future surplus and a resulting collapse in the coffee market. There is also a threat of further devastation from coffee leaf rust, a fungus disease that was swept by the trade winds from West Africa to Brazil. About 400 acres of coffee trees in Nicaragua's Carazo province have already been razed in an attempt to stop the rust, and throughout Central America spraying...
...backed away from a showdown. The toolmakers' unofficial strike committee, meeting in a Birmingham pub called Good Companions, decided they would ask the strikers for a vote to end the walkout-provided that Leyland and the A.u.E.W. would agree to two conditions: 1) Leyland must publicly withdraw its threat to fire strikers, 2) the strike leaders must be promised a meeting with Leyland and A.U.E.W. executives to air their gripes. The probable agenda for that meeting: standardizing toolmakers' pay in all Leyland plants and restoring the pay differentials, presumably as part of any Phase 3 government program...
...Defense Attorney Paul Chevigny, it was "a classic freedom of religion issue." Agreed Attorney Jeremiah Gutman of the American Civil Liberties Union: "This case affects the most fundamental kind of First Amendment issues." Added Harvard Theologian Harvey Cox: "Some Oriental religious movements bother us because they pose a threat to the values of career success, individual competition, personal ambition and consumption, on which our economic system depends. We forget that Christianity, taken literally, could cause similar disquietude...