Word: feared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder there is fear and anger in Moscow, particularly among Gorbachevites. They believe no Kremlin leader can afford to give up Soviet power, not to mention Soviet territory. Many American officials share this concern, although they must be careful about saying so. In a conceit of diplomatic formalism that until recently seemed quaint and futile, the U.S. Government has never recognized the legality of the Baltic annexation. Support for human and civil rights is, or is certainly supposed to be, a constant of American foreign policy...
When an ordinary company takes on a load of debt, the people who have the most to fear are employees and investors. But when an airline goes heavily into hock, the worriers are joined by another group: customers. If an airline is bogged down by debt, they wonder, would the carrier be tempted to save money by lowering its standards on maintenance and other safety measures? Everyone from passengers to politicians has begun to debate that question as billion-dollar takeover wars sweep the U.S. airline industry. Says Jerome Lederer, founder of the Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation, an aviation...
...sensitive woman who, above all else, wants to be loved and wants to be able to control the visions haunting her. She wants someone to be with her, to help her face the slings and arrows of her outrageous fortune, but she finds herself "always alone with what I fear most--the sound of my memories...
...crew was evacuating "all people from theisland who fear for their safety," the Coast Guardsaid in a statement. A cargo ship was ready tosupplement the evacuation if needed...
...naive fear that a victim sometimes feels of causing a potential scandal, compounded by my being a newly-arrived student, I chose almost immediately not to report the incident. It certainly served, though, to dispel any assumptions that I'd been under of Harvard's being solely a place of enlightened beings. Although he did apologize later, the student had quickly displayed his readiness--no matter how irrational--to take out his frustrations on someone different from himself...