Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's trade policy, Bauer said, "has created a China lobby in America made up of corporate presidents hoping to enrich their bottom line [and] politicians afraid to offend these corporations because it would cost them donations...
Republican presidential challengers have tried everything to goad Texas Governor George W. Bush off his front porch in Austin. What's he afraid of? they've asked. He's nothing but a name, they've whispered. But Bush has just smiled--his poll numbers have stayed stratospheric and the satchels full of checks are still coming in to his ZIP code. Last week Elizabeth Dole threw a tomato. Though she did not mention Bush by name, the former Cabinet secretary launched a verbal missile in the post-Littleton gun-control debate, declaring that it was "wrong to let people carry...
Children and guns are not a perfect match [SPECIAL REPORT, May 3], so why do they keep showing up together? It just does not make sense to me. I used to love going to my school, a magnet public school. However, now I am afraid to go to school, for I know that things like the shooting of students can happen anytime, anywhere. RACHEL MORGAN, 13 West Hills, Calif...
...some solitary species like orangutans, there is a higher instance of rape and other coercive behavior, and women might be afraid of that," he adds...
...latest putsch, but Russia's economy may wind up as "collateral damage." The surest sign of that Thursday was the ruble's resumption of its precipitous plunge, which the Yevgeny Primakov government, fired by Yeltsin on Wednesday, had managed to halt. And investors had good reason to be very afraid. "The IMF has made clear it won't give Russia a cent until a new package of reform legislation has been passed," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "There's no way a cabinet that doesn't yet exist will put together that legislation and pass it through a hostile...