Word: threats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew she was fast," Worley said. "I knew she went to goal hard. I knew she was a threat...
...rueful smile, "and I don't like a thing I've heard so far." For the moment Mikhail Gorbachev, the wily Slav, and General Manuel Noriega, the Latin scoundrel, hold the spotlight, but Bush knows that in the long run, the monstrous, suffocating federal budget may be his biggest threat...
...from power by an invading army from Viet Nam. The country's economy operates at only 60% of its prewar level, its port facilities at just one-third. There is a 50,000-ton rice shortage in a country that was once a major exporter. Over everything hangs the threat of renewed civil war -- and the possibility of a return by the Khmer Rouge, whose murderous leaders have taken their place in the nation's demonology...
That China's aloof and secretive officials would submit to such an interrogation might have seemed absurd a few weeks ago. But the nation's student uprising, now three weeks old, has thrown official China into confusion. Having failed to carry out its threat to crack down on the immense student march that engulfed Beijing two weeks ago, the government last week launched a soft offensive, blitzing the public with self-serving propaganda in support of its policies. When the leaders of the new independent student union announced that they would go ahead with a march across the capital...
...that nations have agreed on a timetable for meeting the ozone threat, environmentalists hope that governments will turn their attention to more intractable ecological problems. At the Helsinki conference, West Germany's Environment Minister Klaus Topfer declared that the next urgent task is to put limits on the emission of carbon dioxide and methane, which are believed to be contributing to potentially dangerous global warming...