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  1. Giovanni Peri:

    The idea that immigration threatens American jobs is just not there in any data.

  2. Marc Hearron:

    Even if the defendants won every single case, the burden of having to defend themselves, of having attorneys spending their time, having to go around in rural courts all over Texas -- 258 counties -- defending themselves, that alone threatens to stop the provision of abortion access across the state.

  3. Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook:

    This case is about much more than a single phone or a single investigation, at stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people, and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone's civil liberties.

  4. Courtney Schreiber:

    Restricted access to this safe therapeutic threatens the health of real people – people who are mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and friends – in our country.

  5. Michael Ryan:

    It’s a balancing act for Turkey, the Turks see themselves as the masters of the Black Sea region. They’ve never been very comfortable with the Russian build-up of military equipment in Crimea. It definitely threatens Turkish interests.


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