Word: thresholders
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...chambers of Rome's Palazzo dello Sport last week as bespectacled Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer rose to address his party's 15th national congress. From a lectern bearing the hammer and sickle symbol, he issued a strident challenge: "The Communist Party has always stood on the very threshold of power. If the national and political crisis is to be solved once and for all, we must cross that threshold...
...nuclear shipyards. In fact, many experts now believe any radiation carries with it some risks, as yet undefined, that may take years to show up. As Harvard University's Nobel-Prizewinning Biologist George Wald, an antinuclear activist, puts it: "Every dose is an overdose. There is no threshold where radiation is concerned. A little radiation does a little harm; a lot does more harm...
Scholars lined up on both sides of the nuclear debate. George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, told crowds at Sunday's rally that the Harrisburg plant had released harmful radiation. "There is no threshold; any radiation is dangerous," Wald said...
...simply telling you that there is not a threshold level, that all nuclear radiation harms," Wald told the crowd, which punctuated his and other speeches with cries of "No Nukes...
...mission to Cairo and Jerusalem in an attempt to forge an Egyptian-Israeli peace, failure seemed all but certain. Discouraged aides talked openly of the trip becoming "a debacle." But at the last minute Carter achieved a victory of presidential diplomacy that has brought Egypt and Israel to the threshold of peace after 30 years of enmity and four brutal wars. By his daring and persistent personal intervention, Carter fundamentally altered the geopolitical equation in the volatile Middle East. He also strengthened his own standing both at home and overseas...