Word: afraid
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...glossed over the 900 people who have been euthanized in the Netherlands without asking for it, and viewed this as merely "troublesome." Wouldn't "murder" be a more fitting description? (And 900 is only the number reported.) Many elderly people in the Netherlands today are afraid to enter a hospital and wonder whether they can trust their own doctors with their life. Physicians who once vowed to preserve and enhance life may now be authors of death. The Netherlands, though beloved as the land my parents emigrated from, is a frightening reminder of what can go wrong when doors...
Perhaps. Especially when people are afraid to challenge the campus P.C. norm...
...down 8.6 percent from its 7,085.16 high of March 11. It's not a bear market yet. But it doesn't look good. "I think we're in trouble," says TIME's Daniel Kadlec. "Usually during a downturn, people are tempted to buy, but this time they're afraid to step up." Right now, the reason for that fear is Friday's employment report. An unexpectedly high number, enough to spur Alan Greenspan to raise interest rates again, could send the markets reeling anew. "Greenspan surprised a lot of people when he raised rates the first time," on March...
...best education. Like your Committee, we strongly believe that a delimited liberal arts education is the brand of learning most suited to our great University. But unlike your Committee, we are not bound to any specific system of knowledge categorization by intra-Faculty political allegiances, nor are we afraid to rattle our sabers for fear of internecine Faculty dissension...
That's exactly what the European governments are afraid of. If the U.S. Senate plunges ahead and ratifies the new treaty, then the other allies are likely to do the same without much fuss. But if the Senate hesitates and asks to see proof of the European commitment, that could stymie the process in several capitals. "The essential thing is for the U.S. to go first," says a NATO official. So far it has, but that could change as swiftly as the political winds in Washington...