Word: fears
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Unfortunately, political rhetoric and fear still surround the debate, and many politicians are unwilling to press for increased rehabilitative programming in prisons, despite their proven effectiveness in cutting crime and saving taxpayer money. My personal experience has attested to this as well...
...violence the average passerby needs to be aware of," says Enman. "We don't have to fear for ourselves...
...what many people do who have trouble with organized religion: I became "privately religious." I was still Christian, but I didn't dare practice out in the open for fear I'd hear more unhelpful or contradictory things. Sort of how, if you liked Moby Dick because you imagined Ahab looked like Fabio, you wouldn't hang around the English Department saying that. The problem was, since I never allowed my beliefs to be challenged, I never had to formulate them rationally, never had to make them make sense. Hey, I figured, it works for the Southern Baptists. Religion became...
...concern, going into an election, to keep organized labor enthused about the Democratic party's prospects for winning back the House. The AFL-CIO is solidly against a China trade deal on the grounds that it has insufficient safeguards for human rights and labor standards, without which the unions fear that more manufacturing jobs will depart these shores for China's cheaper labor market. Thus the revival of the coalition between pro-labor Democrats and conservative Republicans that fought NAFTA. Of course Vice President Gore took the lead in facing that one down, although his own electoral concerns...
...Janet Reno now faces a tough decision. "On the one hand, Reno's strategy of drawing this out in the hope of wearing down the resistance of the protesters around the house has produced a measure of protest fatigue," says Padgett. "But on the other hand there's the fear that by having allowed this to drag on, she's raised the expectation among the protesters that they'll prevail. And that could mean that when the government does decide to go in and fetch the boy, the tinderbox atmosphere will be that much more volatile...