Word: fear
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...financial crisis deepens, Asia has looked on nervously, but with little fear of getting dragged into the maelstrom. Asian financial institutions have generally avoided the kind of risky, subprime mortgage-related investments that have crippled financial firms in the U.S. and Europe. Fitch Ratings figures that at mid-year Asian banks accounted for only 6% of the total losses on subprime investments at the world's banks. (European banks, on the other hand, were responsible for 47%.) Even those financial institutions that carried some exposure - like Japan's Mizuho Financial Group, which has reported subprime-linked losses of more than...
...sheer size of the LHC - watching scientists work on its gargantuan components brings to mind a colony of frantic Lilliputians - and the complexity of the science behind it have resulted in bouts of eschatological fear of its destructive potential, with websites and even two lawsuits claiming the LHC will create black holes that will swallow up the earth. (The cover images of this week's issues of the Economist and TIME would suggest that black-hole anxiety has in fact bubbled up into the public consciousness.) But while such scenarios have been ruled out, the machine does pose a small...
...kick to the chest [Sept. 15]. I wonder if those in favor of our military actions could look into these children's eyes and explain to them why America is right to do this to them and their families. All the arguments in the world can never justify the fear and pain reflected in those children's faces. Kelly Czermerys, HUNTER...
...deftly outmaneuvered a more popular rival, Cyril Ramaphosa, in order to assume the presidency after Nelson Mandela left office in 1999 - has angered many. Nevertheless, the ANC's decision raises a deeper question of just how able Zuma is to control the militants among his supporters, who some fear are now in a position to dictate party policy...
...devoted to his ancestral manse, would suddenly bow to his wife’s request that they go to Italy now, immediately, at once. The couple had brought along only Roxanna, Viscountess Felicity’s personal maid. Their departure had been strange. Felicity had developed a sudden fear of horses, and she refused to ride or even to be driven in a carriage. So Roxanna followed Felicity on foot to the train station. Every time a horseman passed them, Felicity had shivered uncontrollably.Now they had spent two months already in the palatial villa which Roxanna could see rising into...