Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body of Ferdinand Marcos, public outrage was growing over its lack of compassion. Critics across the political spectrum have called President Corazon Aquino's ban "un-Filipino." The government claimed that if Imelda Marcos was allowed to bring her husband home, his funeral might touch off disturbances that could threaten the country's economic recovery. Aquino knows the power of a funeral: her political career was ignited when massive crowds turned out for the 1983 burial of her husband Ninoy, assassinated while being escorted by Marcos' soldiers...
...jail, racial tensions and gangs threaten innocent Jimmie. The convicts he encounters match in violence the police who frame him for drug dealing in order to conceal their mistake in busting his house...
...exactly will the balance be struck? What is a controlled expression of opinion that does not threaten the party's authority? Thousands believed their criticism within bounds when Mao urged freethinking in the mid-1950s campaign known as "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom." Then Deng, whom Mao had / once described as "a needle wrapped in cotton," orchestrated a crackdown that sent many to prison for merely following the Great Helmsman's invitation to criticize...
Each day drugs threaten to destroy neighborhoods, corrupt society and take the lives of people in cities across the country. The images of the drug war are powerful: a Natick women reports her son and his friends to police for smoking crack in her basement; an 11-year-old girl breaks into houses in South Boston to support her drug habit...
...Amazon. Jose Lutzenberger, an outspoken environmentalist, notes that the Brazilians trying to develop the rain forest are themselves outsiders to the area. "This talk of 'We can do with our land what we want' is not true," he says. "If you set your house on fire it will threaten the homes of your neighbors...