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Salmon recovery in the Northwest is a complex issue and requires a comprehensive regionwide effort. Dam removal is not the answer. It would have a devastating impact on our region's energy and transportation infrastructure and may do little to even help salmon listed as threatened or endangered.
Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers / U.s. Representative
Comprehensive
Infrastructure
Recovery
Removal
Salmon
Threatened
Transportation
Dam
Devastating
Endangered
Listed
Northwest
Region
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I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a certain space in order to read it, and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.
Edward Hirsch / Poet
Demand
Threatened
Somewhat
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The best thing America can do to put the Middle East on a path that leads to more democracy, less terrorism, human rights and economic growth is to get the hell out of there while showing an absolute crystal clear determination to defend American interests with force whenever they are threatened.
Steve Hilton /
Determination
Economic Growth
Human Rights
Middle East
Terrorism
Threatened
Absolute
American Interests
Crystal
Leads
Showing
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I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically.
Edward Zwick / Filmmaker
Impulse
Japan
Threatened
Burn
Harbor
Historically
Imperial
Ours
Perry
Sailed
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I haven't ever really been close to retiring. I've threatened myself, that kind of thing. There were moments where I'm struggling or not healthy: It's like, OK, is this the best way I can spend my 20s? Is this something that's going to help me in the future, or I might as well be fishing or gaming.
Tennys Sandgren /
Best Way
Fishing
Gaming
Threatened
Struggling
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When I went to England on my own, I became a busker. I played guitar for money in Leicester Square. And the guys who are supposedly blind and crippled, who aren't, got me after I'd collected a lot of money, took my money and threatened to break my arm if I ever came back to their 'kip,' their turf.
Saul Rubinek /
Blind
Crippled
Threatened
Turf
Arm
Collected
Square
Supposedly
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Besieged by lawsuits that threatened to engulf almost everyone at the White House, Clinton assistants shunned paper or e-mail records of their daily deliberations. One told me that he would go down the hall to confer with his division chief face to face rather than discuss an issue on the telephone.
Robert Dallek / Historian
Assistants
Clinton
Division
Paper
Threatened
White House
Almost Everyone
Chief
Discuss
Hall
Lawsuits
Shunned
Telephone
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As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it play a game that had been scheduled when Cumberland still had a team, or Heisman threatened to demand a $3,000 forfeiture fee that could well have put the school out of existence.
Frank Deford / Sportswriter
Bankruptcy
Demand
Threatened
Verge
Fee
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I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.
Hollis Stacy / Golfer
Daughter
Attitude
Doctors
Homosexuality
Mother
Threatened
Gay People Feel
Daughters
Heroes
Politicians
Gays
Towards
Hannibal
Sons
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One thing I have figured out: People don't like different. People don't like to see anything different. When you see something different, you are either scared or afraid or you feel threatened. And I feel that the way I play the game, it feels like I should have played 50 years ago. But it's what I do.
Peyton Hillis /
Threatened
Game People Feel
Game People Way
Different People
Figured
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I'll never have a best friend who is a man. It just doesn't work that way. So many times young girls will be like, 'I'm a guy's girl.' And I'm like, 'No, you're not. There's no way a man can understand you like a woman, and you're a guy's girl because you're threatened by other women.' I was like that.
Jemima Kirke / Artist
Best Friend
Friendship
Girl
Men
Threatened
Best Work Women
Young Girls
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I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.
Sandra Cisneros / Writer
Arbitrary
Behavior
Break
College
Daydreaming
Minutes
Modification
Sabotage
Terrible
Threatened
Used
Time Myself Me
Alarm
Allow
Cycle
Student
Set
Hour
Limit
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There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations.
Evan Osnos / Journalist
Adultery
Arabia
British
Diplomatic Relations
Execution
Oil
Princess
Saudi Arabia
Television
Threatened
True Story
Cut
Exports
Relations
Saudi
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We've noted that the Clinton camp was the first to get it out there, trying to say there was something untoward about the speech Melania Trump gave. It's just another example, as far as we're concerned, that when Hillary Clinton is threatened by a female, the first thing she does is try to destroy the person.
Paul Manafort /
Clinton
Threatened
Camp
Destroy
First Thing
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Noted
The First Thing
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The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.
Frances Beinecke /
Acres
Dramatic
Endangered Species
Forests
Gabriel
Lions
Mature
Mountain
Safeguarding
Species
Streams
Threatened
Rise
Attract
Edge
Peaks
Rampart
San
Towering
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Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools. It wasn't that they were outwardly opposed to white and black people attending school together, it was that the rulings threatened their proud identity as independent Southerners.
Brianna Wu /
Attending
Integration
Threatened
Racial
Required
Southerners
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Although it is hard to see why any sensible authority would feel threatened by the peaceful expression of one's point of view, there is a long history of trying to repress subversive depictions of political figures - back in the 19th century, for example, France's King Louis Philippe was depicted as a piece of fruit.
Nazanin Boniadi / Actress
Authority
Example
Figures
France
Fruit
Peaceful
Point Of View
Sensible
Subversive
Threatened
Louis
Although
Depicted
For Example
Long History
Piece
Repress
View
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We need to focus our energies there, not these broad, blanket, kind of statements that will make it harder for us to deal with ISIS. We need to deal with ISIS in the caliphate. We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.
Jeb Bush / Former Governor Of Florida
Blanket
Cooperation
Muslim World
Statements
Strategy
Threatened
Focus World Will
Broad
Destroy
Energies
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A lot of it was really, really fun, but at some point, things started getting weird. We didn't allow each other to breathe. We didn't really have a sense of ourselves individually. We were very insecure... We were really threatened by the thought of 'Oh my God, what if someone goes off and does something outside the band?'
Charlotte Caffey /
Breathe
Insecure
Threatened
What If
Individually
Oh My God
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At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.
Gelsey Kirkland / Ballerina
Impact
People
Stink
Suffering
Threatened
Life Trust Work
Expose
Institution
Suffer
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As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.
Laurence Yep / Writer
Anger
Chinatown
Incidents
Isolated
Neighborhood
San Francisco
Threatened
Life Hate My Life
Fester
Francisco
However
Insults
Met
Realized
San
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The American Dream is alive and well for some, but not all Americans. Here in South Carolina, rural hospitals are closing, schools are underfunded, and our coasts are threatened by offshore drilling. We need a Senator who's fighting to improve the lives of South Carolinians rather than focusing on interests in Washington D.C.
Jaime Harrison /
American Dream
Carolina
Closing
Drilling
Hospitals
Offshore
South Carolina
Threatened
All Americans
Senator
Focusing
Rural
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
Jesse Jackson / Activist
Activity
Convinced
Focus
Moving
Shadow
Sunlight
Threatened
Life Focus I Am
Engage
Generation
Powers
Preoccupied
Shadows
Tent
Toward
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This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and differences. And they can accept stuff that's weirder. I think there are enough intelligent men out there who get it, but women will watch behavior that's different and process it better. In general, women are less threatened by their emotions.
Albert Brooks / Actor
Differences
Generalization
Intelligent
Threatened
Men Women Better
Men Women Enough
Women Are
Brains
Weirder
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In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.
Robert Winston / Professor
Feet
Fewer
Homo Sapiens
Humans
Immature
Juicy
Meals
Prehistoric
Senses
Threatened
Weapons
Deeply
Endangered
Fleet
Foot
Homo
Moreover
Movements
Predators
Sapiens
Uniquely
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As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division; with law and order when it is subverted by anarchy; and always, I will try to sustain it by wise policies of economic progress so that a democracy means not just an empty liberty, but a full life for all.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo / Former President Of The Philippines
Wise
Anarchy
Arms
Democracy
Division
Economic
Empty
Firmness
Full Life
Law And Order
Liberty
Order
Threatened
Violence
Full
Defend
Policies
Shown
Sustain
Weakened
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In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.
Michael Mandelbaum / Professor
Appreciate
Band
Clip
Country
Other Countries
Past
Powerful
Threatened
Wings
Countries
Happening
In The Past
Provide
Secretly
Services
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What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders - the recidivists and the career criminals - be put away and kept away.
Janet Reno / United States Attorney General
Criminals
Dangerous
Initiative
Offenders
Punishment
Threatened
Be Real
Carry
Failed
Imperative
In The Past
Sentencing
Undertaken
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
Imogen Poots / Actress
Crushed
Generous
Innate
Single Person
Threatened
Vulgar
People Sometimes Way
Met
Some People
Stand Up
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We fell in love during the making of 'Ye Maaya Chesave' in 2009, and the love affair continued very well in the following years. I was, however, delaying revealing to my parents about my love affair despite Sam's insistence. One day, when we were chatting casually, Sam threatened to tie a 'rakhi' on me if I didn't tell about the love to my parents.
Naga Chaitanya /
Affair
Chatting
Despite
Following
Insistence
Love Affair
Revealing
Threatened
Love Me Day
Casually
Sam
Tie
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