Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...change," says determined Denham, who wore pants only once last year--to his high school graduation. "When my legs are covered, it feels weird," he says. Denham's roommate Dalidor E. Snyder `02 admits he is worried about his friend's overexposure. "Being his roommate, I'm afraid he's going to catch a cold. I'm the next closest thing he has to a mother and I wouldn't want him to catch the sniffles," Snyder says...
Religious conservatives, then, have reason to be just as afraid as liberals. If forbidding conservatives from meeting to talk about why they dislike affirmative action makes liberals look scared, the declaration that the pro-choice position deserves "no public recognition" belies an even more desperate turn to principle in the face of increasing public opposition...
...also not a company afraid to spend money to reward its employees. After several months in the intense learning environment of TU, the company headed off to Las Vegas for the weekend...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Who's afraid of a little blowback? Not Al Gore. "That is the American message and I am proud to deliver it here and anywhere I go," he told reporters after New Zealand, Singapore and China joined Malaysia in needling the veep for bringing politics to a summit that's supposed to be all business. "APEC is an economic forum," said New Zealand's Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, whose country will host next year's summit. "Clearly there are some pressing bilateral issues that countries want to raise here in Malaysia, but it should...
...Modern Lovers signed to Warner Brothers, which proves just how base corporate rock today is, since major labels then weren't afraid to sign bands like the Stooges or the MC5 or the Modern Lovers. All these bands were commercial flops, so it's understandable that labels were chastened, but each produced a body of art that ought to have bands like Third Eye Bland and Dave bleedin' Matthews throwing themselves off bridges in shame, or at least wetting themselves with envy...