Mr. Paterson proposes drastic cuts — everything from shutting 55 parks and historic sites to cutting the revenues that Albany sends to New York City, which would threaten 19,000 jobs, close senior centers and imperil other programs.
Together, these controversies — and especially the I.R.S. uproar — threaten to dominate all summer, which would politically imperil any second-term agenda.
He and the others told Feinberg, through A.I.G.'s vice chairman Anastasia Kelly, that if they didn't get to keep that bonus, plus get additional bonuses for work in 2009, they would leave, which would grievously imperil the company.
The city's budget relies on seven billion dollars a year in federal funding, for services from welfare payments to rental subsidies and childcare vouchers, all of which would be imperilled if spending is cut.
An industry wipeout would imperil state finances, which now depend on the tobacco payments.
California officials say it would imperil Proposition 65, which voters enacted in 1986 to limit contamination of groundwater and make businesses disclose when consumers are exposed to carcinogens.
This would imperil their "brand," which rests heavily on transcending partisanship, and on their ongoing insistence that the future depends on following a middle ground between the parties.
In secret, however, de Valera also authorized significant military and intelligence assistance to both the British and the Americans throughout the war; he realized that a German victory would imperil Ireland's independence, of which neutrality was the ultimate expression.
Such a canal, which would likely pierce the largest freshwater lake in Central America, would imperil wetlands and other fragile ecosystems, the scientists warn in a commentary today in Nature.
