Word: feared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brewing and Adolph Coors. Anheuser-Busch will cut the prices of its major brands, including Budweiser and Michelob, by as much as 25 cents a twelve-pack to match competitors. The company says the markdown is necessary to protect its hard-won 41% market share. But beer-industry investors fear that the move could escalate into an all-out price war in which profits could be sharply pinched. Predicts beverage-industry analyst Joseph Doyle: "Anheuser decided to join in the barroom brawl. It's going to get bloody...
...like you see it before you really see it. But if you don't have preconceived notions, the presence of the object will touch you in some way, and you'll be in dialogue with it. I mean, what do you do with people like Tom Wolfe? His fear of modern art is sad. He must have been flogged with a Brancusi somewhere along...
...oranges -- are much more potent than traces of man-made pesticides. "Most of us are more secure with respect to basic survival than we were a generation ago," says Ann Fisher, manager of the EPA's Risk Communication Program. "We're now in a position where we look with fear at what might once have been thought of as less serious dangers...
...threat of mishaps at a nearby nuclear plant. They are more sensitive to risks they can control -- for instance, through laws that ban pesticides or require safety warnings -- than they are to those they feel they can do nothing about -- like acts of nature. "People choose what to fear," says Aaron Wildavsky, co-author of Risk and Culture. "What can you do about an earthquake...
...hope it won't take another rape--or any more assaults--on Harvard's campus to make the much-needed changes in the escort service. But I fear that it might...