Word: fear
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...Incidents such as this one are especially frightening given the current economic climate. Millions of people across the country and around the world already fear for their job security, and, as the university tightens its budget, Harvard employees are no exception. Although fear of unemployment is in many ways inevitable in this depression, no one should feel that their identity—sexual, political, religious, or otherwise—must remain closeted in order to protect their job. We cannot allow this archaic atmosphere of discrimination to exist in the Harvard community, especially not during this critical period of economic...
...workers fear that speaking out against discrimination will put their jobs at risk, then we as students have the responsibility to speak. We should not have to take drastic action, because Harvard should listen to us and should listen to its employees. Even the busiest student can take five minutes out of the day to show support for our staff. Dining-hall feedback cards are meant for our opinions—share yours. People are wearing rainbow ribbons to show their support—wear...
...foes fear that he intends to set up a democratically elected version of Fidel Castro's autocratic rule over Cuba. His fans counter that some democratic countries such as France allow their leaders to be re-elected indefinitely. But analysts say France has more developed political institutions that exert stronger checks and balances on chief executives. That's not always the case in Latin America, argues Walsh, who says Chavistas "are deluded if they think those institutions are working as they should right now in in Venezuela." (See pictures of Castro in the jungle...
...communities are disproportionately left out of the total. The 1990 census missed an estimated 8 million people - mostly immigrants and urban minorities - and it managed to double-count 4 million white Americans. Recent or illegal immigrants are often reluctant to answer questions in a government survey, and many experts fear that concerns about government misuse of personal data post-9/11 could hamper participation in the 2010 census as well. Children have also traditionally been underincluded in census totals...
...Ramping up preventive measures may increasingly be a matter of life and death. Since bird flu re-emerged in 2003, 254 people in 15 countries have died of it. Researchers fear that other crises like global warming and the global recession have crowded the virus out of the news. But the disease survives - in the limelight or out of it. "The point is, this virus has not disappeared at all," says Malik Peiris, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong. "It kind of dropped off the radar screen of media attention, but the virus itself has increased its spread...