Word: feared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff's suggestion that a referendum to decide the fate of the Undergraduate Council's windfall is hasty and unsound. The plan risks a reckless use of the money and undermines the legitimacy of an ad hoc committee created by the council to consider various options. We fear a referendum will be biased and that a better outcome will come from more careful deliberation...
...those who haven't read Raymond's excellent New Hacker's Dictionary, is geek for "fear, uncertainty and doubt"--a trick invented by IBM and perfected by Microsoft for scaring people away from a competitor's product...
...stoke it quietly behind the scenes. What truly concerned him was that the press's eye had wandered since Clinton's Aug. 17 confession. Too many shows were going off-topic, too many talking heads exclaiming over Mark McGwire and showing boredom with Monica Lewinsky. It was fear of increasing scandal fatigue that prompted Gingrich's biggest blunder of the campaign: devising, testing and spending $10 million on TV spots reminding voters of what a snake the President was--a subject the electorate was trying to forget...
...BOOZMAN, an eye surgeon and Republican contender for the Senate in Arkansas, claimed that a fear-driven adrenaline rush keeps rape victims from getting pregnant. Guess someone slept through a semester in med school...
Even more distressing is the construction in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank. Scaffolding has intruded onto the sidewalk, blocking any means of avoiding the Pit when crossing from Out of Town News to the Coop. We at Dartboard have long lived in fear of the maladjusted teenagers from Newton who, adorned in leather and spikes, make the Pit their home. Our recent screening of John Carpenter's new film "Vampire" make the prospect of descending into that den of iniquity all the more harrowing...