Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel like a bugaboo when it comes to keeping up my personal hygiene, going to use my friends' showers every day," said Daniels resident Aaron M. Myers...
Disappearing earnings have already become the bugaboo of China Tire, which was born on the New York Stock Exchange in July 1993 -- a $100 million offering orchestrated by Morgan Stanley. China, tires -- it sounded like a wondrous proposition, but Kaye says it isn't. "All Morgan Stanley did was pull a couple of outmoded bias-ply tire plants off the shelf and repackage them. It's going to take a lot of money to convert those plants to radials. Meanwhile, China Tire isn't being paid for the tires it sells already...
Other graduates say that they are still continuing on in the interests Radcliffe allowed them to focus on. "The main thing was that we felt we had tremendous freedom and people all concentrated on their passion," says Judith Bruce '68. "I didn't think we were haunted by the bugaboo of being well-rounded...
...specter is haunting China -- the specter of capitalism. But the octogenarian leaders in Beijing don't come right out and say that. They call their bugaboo "peaceful evolution," an innocuous-sounding code phrase for what they think is an onslaught led by the U.S. to overturn their socialist system...
...William M. Hoeveler deems essential, that could result in a mistrial or the dismissal of some charges. Some Washington insiders doubt that the trial will result in embarrassing disclosures. "There isn't anything there," says Elliott Abrams, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- American Affairs. "It's a bugaboo." Other intelligence experts disagree. According to a former CIA official quoted by the New York Times, Noriega "can make us look terribly meddlesome. He can expose a lot of activities, people and places. At a minimum, it will be embarrassing and difficult. This sort of case is bad enough when...