Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past five years, more than 20,000 Americans have contracted serum hepatitis, many from blood transfusions, and several have sued as a result. A number of courts have rejected their claims. But last week an Illinois housewife won one round in a legal battle and touched off a scare that has hospitals sweating blood...
John Bowers and Rud Istvan survived an early scare to finish second in the JV division, while Peter Belknap and Chris Middendonf had a disastrous day in the Freshman division...
...Israeli Mirages showed up over the battlefield near Irbid. The Israeli jets took no part in the battle; they were there to take pictures of the fighting-as were a number of U.S. photo-reconnaissance planes. An Israeli source said that the Mirages were also trying to throw a scare into the Syrians. "In this kind of fight," acknowledged one Israeli air force officer, "we are with Hussein." The Israelis also helped their unusual temporary ally by massing tanks and other military equipment along the Jordan-Syria border, and by letting it be known that if they entered...
Acknowledging fears that the expansion would scare off outstanding students, Bowker redoubled recruiting efforts and succeeded in attracting the same proportion of academic whiz kids that the university has boasted in past years. To keep the disadvantaged students from dragging down academic standards, the university is giving them as much time as they need to finish, plus a stiff dose of remedial courses. The catch-up work will not count toward a degree. Bowker insists: "We will not award college degrees for anything except college-level work...
...students, requiring 11 of them to leave, it ruled that student demonstrators did not have to be warned that their actions were illegal in order to be prosecuted for them. In a situation where peaceful demonstrations could easily erupt into violence, the effect of this latest ruling was to scare students out of political activity and stifle legitimate dissent...