Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...straight-and-narrow first mile of the course, and was one of the top four when he breezed across the mile mark at 4:32. Teammates Reed Eichner, Pete Fitzsimmons, and Jeff Campbell were not far behind, and at this point only Dartmouth, Princeton, and Penn posed any real threat...
...firms represented on PAIIC's political action committee would be the first to go, since larger firms lack the mobility. But now, due to a large-scale campaign against the amendment, red-flag reaction against the word "tax," and voter misinformation, this is no longer a threat. The 40 businessmen on the PAIIC committee can cancel their househunting trips to Connecticut and New Hampshire, at least until next election year...
...coordinator of the Somerville Saves ecycling program, I am often asked if the Bottle Bill represents a threat to Somerville's first-in-the-nation, municipally-operated home pickup recycling program. People from other cities and towns ask, "Will our voluntary recycling programs be hurt if Question 6 passes...
Angry Soviets. Some Washington analysts were even speculating that Belenko and his rough-and-ready flying machine might have been a deliberate Russian plant, designed to show that the U.S. Air Force has been overresponding to an imagined Soviet threat in weaponry. Others speculated that the Russians wanted the Japanese to let U.S. experts examine their plane. According to this scenario, such anti-Soviet action provided Moscow with an excuse to postpone indefinitely an agreement with Tokyo over the four strategic Kurile Islands, which were seized by the Russians in 1945. "It's far out, but that...
...billion balance of payments deficit for the second straight year. To help out the economy, Suárez has frozen wages and prices and suspended a law preventing financially distressed companies from laying off workers. Leftists charge that the program goes too far and poses a "serious threat" to workers' interests; some businessmen argue that the program is not bold enough. Until a referendum gives him something approaching a popular mandate, Suárez will probably have to continue with a brand of tightrope policies that seem to satisfy neither left nor right...