Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...sits on its hands like a perplexed giant. Both individually and at the policy level, Americans seem to be all for environmental protection, so long as it does not disrupt business as usual. Though the U.S. is the world's biggest contributor to the industrial and automobile emissions that threaten to wreak havoc with the global climate, none of the past three Administrations have delivered a national energy policy...
...prosecution witness is 16-year-old Genesio Barbosa da Silva (no relation to the defendants), a former Da Silva ranch hand. He told police that he overheard the younger Da Silva plan and then boast of Mendes' murder. Several other people have said they heard both Da Silvas threaten Mendes and the seringueiros. And the son confessed to the shooting, although he later retracted the statement...
...before the committee, Webster was also careful to caution that even an economic stranglehold on Iraq might not cause Saddam to loosen his grip on Kuwait. There is no guarantee, Webster advised, that "economic hardships will compel Saddam to change his policies, or lead to internal unrest that would threaten his regime." But in the most comprehensive public analysis to date of the impact of the sanctions, Webster went on to outline a picture of an Iraqi economy that would be badly crippled by next summer...
...current standoff in the Gulf in the form of a game called "Chicken." Just as hot-rodding teenagers may scream their souped-up cars toward each other in an adolescent test of wills, each hoping that the other will swerve off the road, so can national leaders threaten each other with mutual destruction in order to persuade the adversary to give...
...officials believe Iraq does not pose an imminent nuclear threat, they do not necessarily dismiss the wisdom of a continuing technological embargo and even a military strike to deter Saddam's atomic program before it gets much further. They argue that the reckless Iraqi leader might use or threaten to use nuclear weapons if he ever obtains them. But an attack to prevent this, says an Administration official, would be a "preventative war, not a pre-emptive one. It doesn't explain why you go to war this month as opposed to six months from...