Word: threats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest threat comes from corporations bent on increasing profits no matter what the costs," said Dr. Jean Kilbourne, a film producer and writer who sits on the board of directors of the National Council on Alcoholism. The alcohol industry takes in $65 billion in revenue each year and spends $1 billion in advertising, she said...
Bush threatened in August to veto the bill if it contained the more liberal abortion language. Administration officials reiterated that threat yesterday...
...most startling symptom of dovishness came from the Pentagon, in the just-released 1989 edition of Soviet Military Power. In the past, the Defense Department has used its annual threat assessment to present the latest scary examples of Soviet high-tech weaponry. This year's version features a cover photo of Soviet soldiers in retreat from Afghanistan under the headline "Prospects for Change." The report concludes, "Today the likelihood of conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is perhaps as low as it has been at any time in the postwar era." Admiral William Crowe, who retired last week...
House mice do pose a health threat, but not one as serious as some have suggested, according to Gary D. Alpert '81, entomology officer in Harvard's Environmental Health and Safety Department...
Soviet and foreign analysts disagree on whether ethnic turmoil or economic failure is the greater threat to Gorbachev. There is no doubt, though, that the peril is real. "Even after this week," observed former British Ambassador to Washington Sir Oliver Wright, "the odds are against him." A Soviet political scientist in Moscow, Yevgeni Ambartsumov, is equally grim. "The threat of economic collapse exists," he says. "Things are getting worse...