Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once welcomed as liberators of a land enslaved in Somoza servitude, the revolutionary F.S.L.N. has proved adept at only one thing: holding on to misused power. -- Leaders of Israel's Labor Party threaten to pull out of the national-unity government. -- By meeting with Botha, South Africa's Mandela gives his blessing to direct talks between blacks and the government...
...uncle, the New York lawyer, likes to threaten with lawsuits. "This food in front of me stinks...LAWSUIT!...I've got a cramp in my lower leg from sitting in this tiny seat...LAWSUIT!...This bearded man next to me just took off his shirt and he stinks...LAWSUIT...
...gang of six elderly women began staring at me and waving their canes in anger. I had to calm them down by pointing at my grandfather and telling them that they didn't know who they were dealing with. I had my uncle threaten them with a lawsuit...
Faced with accusations that its aggressive trade policies threaten rain forests, the oceans and a host of endangered species, the superpower has launched a series of initiatives. But the country is handicapped by a shortage of conservation activists and experts. Do its actions signal a heightened environmental awareness or merely skillful public relations...
...equipment, mainly electronics gear to improve the performance of F-8 fighter planes. Bush also authorized the Immigration and Naturalization Service to extend the visas of Chinese students in the U.S., many of whom are afraid to go home. Later in the week, as outright civil war seemed to threaten, the State Department urged all Americans in China to get out, and made that an order for families and dependents of its diplomats. By week's end some 7,300 of the roughly 8,800 U.S. citizens in China had been evacuated, many by hastily arranged charter flights...