Word: threatening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After Stewart's tally, the Crimson would threaten again several times, but Schaeffer held Harvard scoreless for the remainder of regulation. The Crimson's best chance after that came in the game's final minute with the score knotted...
...democracy is not characterized by its forward-thinking policy, its welfare rights or its ability to speak for the people. Popular government is marked by struggle, bureaucracy, checks-and-balances and endless debate, all of which threaten to engulf the isolated fictions of real community progress...
...candidate would voluntarily refrain from using such contributions without a belief that the public wants big money out of politics. The agreement should therefore embolden politicians to call for the elimination of soft money in their campaigns as part of campaign finance reform. The thorny issues that still threaten the New York agreement, however, will pose equally strong barriers to reform at the national level...
...woke up to the realities of global warming--something that scientists have recognized and warned about for years [ENVIRONMENT, Sept. 4]? After significant climatic change, the earth may be not as generous, richly diverse or hospitable as it has been in centuries past. What right do we have to threaten the existence of other species? Who are we to selfishly deprive future generations of the gifts of the earth? JANICE H. IANNELLI DI TOSTO Lincoln Park...
...encourages people to risk their lives. Campaigning against the act has become the centerpiece of Fidel Castro's domestic propaganda efforts in the wake of the Elian Gonzalez case, but that doesn't mean Havana will use Thursday's previously scheduled immigration talks with U.S. officials in Washington to threaten, once again, to open the spigots. (The current arrangement was negotiated between the two governments, which have no official diplomatic relations, after Castro for a brief period in August 1994 allowed anyone who could get onto a flotation device to leave, creating a "boat people" crisis for the authorities...