Word: fears
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Regardless, however, many around at the time say the climate of the newsroom in the '70s and early '80s was one that was not friendly to homosexuals, and most stayed deeply within the closet for fear that discovery would affect their careers...
...There's no question that there was a great deal of fear of Abe [among gay people]," says Jones. "Of course, he scared the crap out of everybody...
...paying in flesh--the fear side. Amid unprecedented and treacherous trading volatility, the NASDAQ has fallen nearly 40% in the past six weeks and shredded the nest eggs of untold numbers of latecomers. That's why it's best to have both bulls and bears striking a balance--to keep stocks tethered to reality. Lose that equilibrium, and you get boom, bust, pain...
...negative psychology--the fear--is further evidenced by how investors react to news. Before the spring sell-off, even bad news was a reason to buy because such an announcement cleared away any reason to sell. Now stocks like Cisco and Hewlett-Packard are falling even on exceptional earnings reports. With the good news out, the new logic goes, there's nothing left to keep the stock up. Better sell. The scary thing is that there is no way to tell how long this irrational gloominess will rule. Investors should come to grips with the possibility that we have entered...
...either convince Russia to amend the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which forbids either side from adding to its missile-defense systems, or else back out of the treaty. But the Russians warn that scrapping the treaty - which is based on the logic that defense systems diminish one side's fear of retaliation for launching a nuclear attack and therefore force the other side to deploy even more warheads to overwhelm such defenses - would void all other arms-control agreements between the two sides...