Word: bogeyman
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...exile to those placed there, and an Allston campus that does not replace the Quad but amounts to a third severed satellite community would be equally disastrous. So the decision to have a substantial number Houses across the river is welcome news—and helpful in banishing the bogeyman of being “Allstonned.” As we have stated in the past, if Allston is going to be inhabited by undergraduates, a “critical mass” of students are needed at a minimum—an idea the committee on Allston has thankfully...
...Nevertheless, China will be the biggest economic challenge facing the U.S. President. For the American public, China is replacing Japan as an economic bogeyman. Though the criticism isn't entirely fair, the fears of China's growing economic dominance in Asia are real. In the early 1990s, Japan's share of the deficit spiked at more than 50%, but it since has sunk to about 10%. Meanwhile, China's share has slowly crept upward, to more than 20%, and now represents the U.S.'s largest deficit with any country. The trend is set to continue as Beijing opens the mainland...
...essential window into the sum of her predicaments. His shot of Charlie Chaplin making devil's-horns at the camera is an object lesson in economical wit. Accusations of communist sympathies were pushing Chaplin away from America; Avedon gives us the funnyman trying on his new role, the bogeyman...
...mistake. By Republican standards, Richard Nixon was middle-of-the-road. He believed his job was not to dismantle the New Deal but to manage it more effectively than the Democrats did. And by those lights, Gerald Ford was no better, naming the ur-moderate Nelson Rockefeller, the bogeyman of the Republican right, his Vice President...
...That son of a bitch is the bogeyman,” he said...