Word: scared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politicians were concerned about where the money was coming from. Alarmed by the tide, House Democrat John Bryant of Texas has long pushed for legislation to require disclosure of the identity of foreign investors. But for years, the Reagan Administration refused to go along, claiming that such openness might scare away capital...
...West Bank village of Ya'bad everyone knows -- and shuns -- three Palestinian brothers who watch over the community with binoculars, Uzis and walkie-talkies. Says a resident: "These traitors carry out the army's job, beating people, destroying property and shooting in the air day and night just to scare us." Intifadeh leaders have made such blatant collaboration a capital offense. Other victims are accused of offending Islamic factions by trafficking in drugs and sex. And some are the victims of personal vendettas or tribal rivalries: the label of collaborator provides a convenient cover for settling scores...
Sharp-shooters John Willoughby at 170-pounds and Joe Biland can scare the tights off any wrestler in these here parts...
...COCA." He says instead that we should direct our anger at the right-wing terror of our government. I happen to agree with him that the current administration is on the wrong side of the Central America issue--but it is not up to me or Baer to scare the daylights out of those who disagree with us by dropping unidentified phony draft notices in their mailboxes. I wonder if Baer would cheer if the campus pro-life movement got a list of all undergraduate women who have had abortions, and then sent them phony letters from the president asking...
...into a scientific setting, armed with papers from dissident researchers, and warn about the potentially catastrophic consequences of inadequately regulated research. Says geneticist Zinder: "The accusations are made simply, with simple words. But the proof is very sophisticated and often difficult to grasp." Rifkin acknowledges that he occasionally uses scare tactics. But he claims that the scientific establishment is equally guilty, both of excessive rhetoric and of usurping policy decisions that need more debate than they are being given...