Word: threats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with great reliability and little expense. So essential has electricity become that more than 2 million miles of power lines, literally huge extension cords, criss-cross the U.S. But nowadays many Americans are increasingly fearful that the electric and magnetic fields generated by such overhead cables pose a serious threat to human health, causing everything from learning disorders to cancer...
...things are a little different now, and the producers of the latest Bond venture, Licence to Kill, know it. People are jaded now; the threat of nuclear Armageddon doesn't seem to faze them. Bye-bye SPECTRE, bye-bye SMIRSH, there is a new agent of terror in the modern world...
...faithful watchers of Miami Vice already recognize, the greatest threat to our national security is no longer global terrorism--it's drugs. So the villian in Timothy Dalton's second outing as Bond, and the first of the series not to be based on a Fleming work, is guess what, a narcotics kingpin...
...study and discuss it. We were appalled by the three-day limit for examining the contract. We had serious questions about the strength and adequacy of the contract to support union members over the next three years in the face of Boston area costs of living and the threat of a national recession. We were outraged that no public debate was permitted the membership until after the voting on June 29. We wrote a collective statement, "We Can Do Better," presenting our analysis of the contract summary and urging voters to demand at least two more weeks to insure proper...
...industry does not have the equipment, expertise or technology to mount an effective response ((to a spill)) within a critically short period of time." As the U.S. imports a growing share of the oil it consumes, bringing it in on tankers, spills will inevitably become a larger environmental threat...