Word: threats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Morse, yesterday's scare differs from many bomb threats at Harvard, which usually take place in response to demonstrations and controversies on campus. "This threat doesn't seem connected to any specific cause, but reading period tends to bring a few extra [threats]," he said...
Police declared the threat "negative" after evacuating the building for approximately 30 minutes while three Harvard police officers and two Harvard security guards inspected it. Doherty said that evacuation is "normal procedure" for bomb scares...
...good news is that the Government is waking up to the threat from Japan and beginning to respond in a very Japanese way: by encouraging rival firms to cooperate rather than compete on the most difficult research tasks. The U.S. is making concerted efforts in several strategically important fields...
Legal experts are divided on whether the narrower case against North will have better odds for conviction. North's threat to use graymail against the remaining charges could backfire, according to some lawyers. "Right now Oliver North is not viewed as a graymailer; he is viewed as a patriot," says former Watergate assistant prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste. That outlook could change, Ben-Veniste suggests, as the focus of the case shifts from the unauthorized conduct of foreign policy to the seedier allegations of shredding documents, lying to Congress and diverting money for North...
...with comparable protection for about $1 a day. The CDW controversy began to heat up in 1987, when many rental agencies removed the ceiling on customer damage liability, which was typically $3,000, and began holding motorists responsible for the full value of the cars they were renting. That threat helped car-rental clerks persuade more customers to accept the CDW. Acknowledges Russell James, a vice president at Avis: "Many companies were abusing it. They were gouging the customer." Many consumers were already covered but did not realize it, since about 60% of all insured motorists carry rental insurance...