Word: fears
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...live in the black community, you don't know whether to fear the cops or the robbers, or both," he said...
...This should strike fear in the hearts of all who value democracy on campus," Seton said. "Each person on council gets one vote on committee and one vote on council...
Sexist assertions by anti-gun activists tell women to fear guns. Arguments that an attacker (presumably male) would wrest a gun from a woman's control or that a woman with a gun would be more likely to hurt a family member than a criminal are clear sexist fallacies that attempt to rob women of agency, suggesting that they have no control over their own actions. Both are insults to the intelligence and independence of women...
...worry about it. Y2K was a bust, but anxiety is still America's leading psychiatric disorder. "We're living in about the safest times in human history, yet people seem to be more afraid than ever before," says Barry Glassner, a sociologist and the author of The Culture of Fear. "This book works right off the prevailing ethos that you should be afraid of all the wrong things." A sequel is expected next year. The Worst-Case Scenario Travel Handbook will cover such things as hostage situations and civil unrest. Meanwhile the Survival Handbook is generating other spin-offs, including...
...called to alert relatives to look out for them. They even say he had applied for a visa for himself on a number of occasions--all of which fueled the speculation last week that if only he could get to the U.S. and finally speak out without fear, he would never want to leave...