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...deciding to take this step, we crossed the threshold from legal to illegal activity. I felt uneasy. Where would it end? Arrest? Internal exile? It was no time to ponder the consequences; it was important to act. Many of those who took part in the effort are still alive, and I can't reveal the details or the names of those who offered their assistance. Many of them asked me not to, and I'm not about to violate their confidence; not everyone wants to become a hero of this book. I would like only to express my sincere thanks...
...Raising the threshold for a Knesset seat from 1% to at least 4%. This would dramatically reduce the number of small parties represented...
Feld's biggest concern is keeping his shows fresh in an age when young people have a high and still rising threshold for amazement. His search for new talent and incredible feats is never-ending, but that's the way he likes it. Says Feld: "Nobody in the world has a job like this." Spoken like P.T. Barnum...
...World War I, which the exiled Lenin fervently opposed, that finally brought him to the threshold of victory. Battered by German triumphs, disheartened by bread riots and other signs of popular hostility, Czar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917 and handed over power to a provisional government headed by the conservative Prince Lvov. Lenin passionately argued that the time for revolution...
...state. He also plans to push for a law banning the city's practice of allowing a principal to serve as the head of his school for as long as he wishes, a kind of lifetime tenure that Fernandez claims can shield poor performers. "I have a low threshold for tolerating incompetence," he says...