After India exploded its nuclear bombs, they talked tough, in effect threatening Pakistan.

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In less than two weeks, dangerous across the board budget cuts are slated to take effect, potentially threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, our national security and our economic recovery.

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Goldsmith and Wu are with the pessimists who think that pro-Western content and satire, along with other "threatening" material, will have a minimal effect on repressive regimes as long as they are hard to find.

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But if it is true then climate change stops being a looming diaster threatening all we hold dear and becomes instead just a minor background effect.

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Megabanks Wells Fargo and Bank of America fired back by closing their ATMs to nondepositors in Santa Monica and threatening to do the same in San Francisco when its law takes effect in December--all of which made cardholders even angrier.

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They fret about the effect of France's political scandals, including one now threatening Mr Chirac too, on foreign-policymaking.

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Yet that, in effect, is exactly what satellite broadcaster DirecTV is doing by threatening to directly sue individuals who pirate its television signals using counterfeit smart cards.

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To implement the new rights, which took effect on Jan. 19, the Internal Revenue Service is sending out threatening letters.

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Still, a press release from the National Institutes of Health said that life-threatening or fatal bleeding, mainly from the lungs, was the most common side effect, and was more common in patients receiving Avastin than just chemotherapy.

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