Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prison Scene it is poor staging that allows us to see only Malvolio's hands sticking through a basement window. Still, Rabb's is a portrayal to cherish, right up to the series of glares he aims at one person after another when, unenlightened, he voices a final threat and departs...
...program was legally challenged by three unions in 1975. The unions argued that Government pressure had led the company to welsh on seniority requirements for promotion, agreements that had been spelled out in union contracts. The unions' main target was the threat to their seniority preference plans, not other elements of affirmative action. Their claim was rejected in the spring of 1977 by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court last week refused to review that decision...
...club: if Congress and the White House will not cooperate, the Federal Reserve will have to crack down so hard on money supply, and push interest rates so high, that there really will be a recession. Characteristically, he put it to Taber in tones of promise rather than threat: "The Fed fits into this model in a rather selfish way. Any economic strategy that works toward lessening inflation will inevitably lessen the pressure on the central bank," and allow it to put out enough money to promote his cherished 4% growth rate...
...encompassing executive security service. Their advice does not come cheap: a major company that calls in an agency for a thorough study of its security needs may expect to pay $100,000 or so. Both Burns and Pinkerton's typically begin such a consultation with a "threat analysis," aimed at determining the degree of peril to which the company and its high-level executives are exposed. After that study, which may take as long as six months if the client has overseas branches, the advisers draw up a plan that outlines exactly how the company should react in various...
...moved his family out of the country; his wife and three children have lived in Switzerland for the past three years. But few businessmen themselves have been prompted to leave, and most would regard such a move with distaste. Says Alfa Romeo Chairman Gaetano Cortesi of the kidnaping threat: "If it happens, it happens. But if you give up, they win." Cortesire-Ruoi FREY fuses to hire bodyguards, yet he tries to keep his movements unpredictable. He never buys his newspaper from the same stand, never makes airline or hotel reservations in advance and uses taxis rather than a company...