Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afraid that he was going to be lynched," recalled Luis Soto, an inner-city businessperson now working with Porter...
...money to lose, they lost more than most Albanians in the collapsing pyramid funds. They have had it with Berisha. "He is a thief who stole our money," says Idris Nimet, a carpenter turned rebel. "Berisha will never get to Vlora. The people are with us, the soldiers are afraid, and everyone has guns...
...Steve," I whisper as he's whipping up a batch of no-recipe brownies in his kitchen, "I'm afraid to give up my Mac." Don't be, he says. While Macs were once prized for their ease of use, all computers are becoming equally complex. If I were buying my first computer today, he says, a PC would be every bit as easy (or hard) to master as a Mac. In fact, he insists, "there are a bunch of things on the PC that are absolutely superior." With the zealotry of a recent convert, he ticks off the holy...
...like watching the State of the Union address; it's not at all revealing, but still important enough to ruin a night of TV. In truth, the weighty miasma of chastity that hangs over Harvard merely clouds a deeper problem that no one wants to address: Harvard students are afraid of intimacy...
...There is no single road to Judaism," Dershowitz said. "We shouldn't be afraid. We should be risk-takers--we are going to be forced to be risk-takers...