Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...core financials and the systems that looked to threaten human safety have, for the most part, been reprogrammed to be able to deal with the date change. And to test the effect of these corrective measures, the University has turned the clock forward to make sure its important machinery doesn't shut down...
...even if Harvard won't admit it, attacks byBuchanan and others who hope to claim a piece of"diversity" for themselves threaten to damage thelegitimacy of Harvard admissions'community-building project...
...easier for us to deal with the University because it's harder for them to threaten to outsource all its clerical and technical workers," says Donene M. Williams, past president for nine years and current treasurer of HUCTW...
...recent article in the New York Times,Simpson describes President Bill Clinton's habitof saving his political career just as a newscandal appears to threaten...
...year's scare would be the astronomical equivalent of crying wolf and could lead to public indifference. But news of 1999 AN10 spurred other astronomers to track the asteroid. They posited that the tug of terrestrial gravity during the 2027 flyby could change the asteroid's orbit enough to threaten Earth during a 2044 passage. Indeed, say astronomers, 1999 AN10's path will remain dangerously close to Earth's orbit for the next 600 years. Maybe the budget increase will be passed by then...