Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needed to desegregate nearby schools. Busing also helped block the predicted pattern of swift racial turnover once a few blacks had moved into a neighborhood, since the plan guarantees that no school will become all black. Says a local real estate agent: "When busing was new, people were afraid of something they just didn't know. But I think desegregation is an accepted fact...
...young associates (Martin Short, Alley Mills, John Getz) must choose between ambition and conscience. As one of them jokes, should he "make a nun crack under crossexamination" to serve a big client? The Associates is not afraid to address the ethical issues, light and serious, that confront the legal profession. This show is only afraid of being unfunny or cheap - and, of that, it apparently need have no fear...
Honestly, I am more afraid of judges and lawyers than I am of the U.S.S.R...
Many scientists are afraid that the acquisition of such bacterial immunity is greatly hastened by adding antibiotics to animal feed. Most livestock already harbor large populations of drug-resistant bacteria, since the less hardy microbes are wiped out by the drugs. Opponents of the feed practice argue that even with relatively clean handling and packaging conditions, these bacteria could be transferred to meat and poultry products and eventually wind up in the human gastrointestinal tract. There they could pass on their defensive plasmids to resident bacteria in the gut. One strong piece of evidence: people who are often in contact...
Henry C. Moses, dean of Freshmen, addressed "the peerless class of '83," reciting statistics and telling freshmen not to be "afraid of making mistakes...