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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gospel of our civic religion rather than out of anyone's buying the math. Alarm about imports tends to ebb and flow with the economy--less in good times, more in bad. So how, in the best times ever, did the World Trade Organization become the global bogeyman? No earnest college kid ever hitched across the country to carry a picket sign against the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the WTO's predecessor, although its function was similar. It took decades for the CIA, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations to achieve their places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mystical Power of Free Trade | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...America has always needed a bogeyman...and the criminal has become the bogeyman," Ellis said...

Author: By Erik Beach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel on Prison Reform Draws Boos, Hisses, Heated Debate | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

Booze, however, is Webster's bogeyman. "The majority of kids go out and go drinking and then go home," says Raimondo. "It puts them at risk for auto accidents and bad choices." Every two years the school stages a brutally realistic drunk-driving accident for 11th- and 12th-graders. Right outside, two cars are smashed together, and five "bloodied" students are put inside. Two of them are said to be dead at the scene, and a third must be extricated by firemen wielding metal cutters while a helicopter stands by. The scene always has a chilling effect on students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuesday: 1:20 P.M. At The Party | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...agency terms travelers, people who troll the Internet for impressionable children, trying to persuade them to meet for sex in the real world. "We've encountered a brand new kind of offender," says Randy Aden, supervisor of Southern California's safe squad. "You don't get the stereotypical bogeyman. You get doctors, lawyers, policemen, firemen--the guy next door." Aided by an infusion of $20 million from Congress in the past two years, the FBI last year brought 698 cases against cyber pedophiles, an increase from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooling Off Hotseattle | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Marina Warner's latest book is No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Agitator EMMELINE PANKHURST | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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