Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haig's threat that Nixon's lawyer, James St. Clair, would make things "bloody" for Jaworski: "I finally said, 'I don't care how tough he is. I've come to grips with tough lawyers many times in many places, and some of them-well, St. Clair wouldn't make a pimple on their butts...
...could jeopardize the government's wage-control agreements with organized labor. Len Murray, Britain's top union leader, warned last week that unless the jobless rate was quickly cut, there would be "a rapid growth of support for radical changes in the government's policies," a threat that could come true next month when Britain's powerful Trades Union Congress holds its annual meeting in Brighton...
...object of his jealousy, violent and without limits. Friends and family, even memories became a threat to our relationship." So writes Actress Liv Ullmann, 37, describing life with Swedish Film Maker Ingmar Bergman. Liv's recollections of her former lover, current director (Face to Face) and the father of her daughter Linn, 9, are published this week in her autobiography titled The Change. If Ullmann takes a sharp focus on Bergman, she is equally exacting about some other famous men she has met. Among them: Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and former President Richard Nixon...
...important than it once was. Last December, for example, the Securities and Exchange Commission threw out the New York Stock Exchange's Rule 394, which had effectively limited competition by requiring that most stock transactions take place on the Big Board's floor. Now brokers face another threat to their exclusivity: competition from banks in the business of buying and selling stocks...
...that is not only predictable but practically required by law. The movie is stately, even funereal, as it details the last week of J.B.'s life. Director Don Siegel excels at turning out saw-toothed melodramas (Dirty Harry), and likes to play along the grim edge where sullen threat turns to quick, obliterating violence. Not even in The Beguiled-a harrowingly beautiful gothic tale-has Siegel gone so far away from what is familiar...