Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation-from the East Coast to a line roughly bisecting the Plains states and including a giant thumb jutting up from Texas as far as Idaho. The natural-gas shortage was still at crisis point. The economy was still shaken (see ENERGY and ECONOMY & BUSINESS). A further threat: surging floods if the snow and ice melt too quickly...
...weather gradually warmed last week, the first worrisome runoffs began flowing into the ice-clogged streams, raising the threat of flooding in some areas. In Washington, federal officials were already working on plans to provide shelter, food and medical care for stricken communities that could be hit by floods if a sudden thaw turned the runoffs into torrents...
...relations, and most of the present leaders are the very men who survived Stalin. World opinion is what keeps us going, what keeps us alive." Mass terror was ended after Stalin's death, but no one doubts that if the dissident movement were ever to become a serious threat to Communist rule, the Kremlin would crack down with full force...
...troublesome to Americans lately, swine flu ranks somewhere below spring fever. Only three cases have been discovered since the flu-related death last year of a soldier at Fort Dix, N.J., and none was fatal. In fact, the massive swine flu vaccine program proved to be more of a threat than the disease: it has been implicated in nearly 400 cases of a little-understood, usually temporary paralysis called Guillain-Barré syndrome. Yet last week, while acknowledging the risks, federal authorities ordered a partial resumption of the on-again, off-again swine flu program, which had been suspended since...
...like the concept of sin-it defies definition," he says. "If we start restricting adult reading habits by what's fit for children, we could be left with only Little Red Riding-Hood. "Says William Shawn, editor of the chaste New Yorker: "This is a very serious threat. In this instance it has to do with taste, but ultimately it has to do with what our attitudes are. In a free society nobody should be the judge...