Word: fears
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...voters themselves may find that it washes away rather quickly, with a little cynicism and lots of egg nog, but the elected officials themselves are less likely to forget. This was a brush with politicians' greatest fear - irrelevance in an increasingly Wall Street Nation - and the best way they can win back voters' attentions is to promise to listen more carefully next time...
...Constitutionally, elections really are a state affair. Do we really want to mess with that? Leave the Electoral College in place, as a mild equalizer and a needed firewall, and let the system renew itself the way it always has: out of naked political fear...
...Whitman wanted U.N. ambassador (that's reportedly George Mitchell's to refuse) but will get stuck with EPA; Ridge, overqualified for the shelf jobs, will probably just get stuck. All because Bush's greatest fear is touching off an abortion distraction - the Supreme Court aspect alone is staggering - that he deems completely irrelevant to his near-term goals...
...there are several crucial differences across Harvard's nine schools. For example, the College does not allow students to sit on its ad board out of fear that students will not be as objective as the faculty members...
...That misconception, the study's authors fear, could result in a dangerous upswing in STDs. Every year, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 3 million teenagers (or about one in four sexually "experienced" teens) are diagnosed with an STD. "We've drilled into our kids the dangers of pregnancy," Linda Alexander, president of the American Social Health Association, told the New York Times. "We haven't talked much about activities that don't result in pregnancy...