Word: threats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half, but we let them get away from us in the third period and lost control and morale in the fourth," said senior Eric Bentley, who scored three goals from his hole-man position. "Our main problem in the second half was that no one was a big offensive threat. We needed a better balance between our outside shooting, driving and hole-play. We'll work on coordinating our offense this week...
...pipeline submit individual spill contingency plans by Nov. 13, Kelso says he will deny them access to the port of Valdez, effectively shutting down the pipeline. George Bush has warned that a shutoff of oil would not be in the "national interest." This is not Alaska's first such threat. After the Exxon Valdez ran aground in March, Governor Steve Cowper told oil companies to increase safety measures or he would shut the pipeline. Now Cowper wants something in writing...
Still, as last week's quake in San Francisco demonstrated only too well, it does not take a Big One to deal a lethal blow. For this reason, some geologists think that the Big One has been overemphasized as a near-term threat. There are faults up and down the California coast capable of equaling the latest quake, and that is enough reason to worry. Likely candidates for significant quakes in Northern California include not only Berkeley and Oakland but also the Silicon Valley. The Los Angeles Basin, for its part, has experienced an increase in small earthquakes, which many...
...lady" is Professor Anna Aksharumova, the current American women's champion. She has to be considered the major human threat to Kasparov...
Within a decade, the professional glow had faded. Television, a latent threat to the press since its first practical demonstration in 1929, had undercut the prosperity of the picture magazines: Look vanished in 1971; LIFE suspended publication in 1972. Tensions erupted between editors -- text oriented, even at picture magazines -- and some of the more deeply committed photojournalists over what to cover and how. Eugene Smith, one of the masters of the LIFE photo-essay, broke away from the magazine in 1954 to seek, in his view, more profound forms of expression. He spent nearly 20 years in obscure poverty composing...