Word: feared
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...intimidation and harassment of clinic workers has led to a decline in doctors willing to provide abortions, as well as created a culture of fear for those who go to them. This violent targeting of abortion clinics and their doctors must end. Most pro-life activists do not condone these acts, however many of the major anti-abortion groups do not condemn them either. On the whole there is a dismaying lack of response from these groups, a silence which many take to be a form of consent. If opponents of abortion rights wish to give their movement any integrity...
...talking about the ungentleman in the fourth row with the apparent fear of deodorant...
...studies showing that 75% to 80% of these divorce-related allegations are false, Brott and his co-author trace the cozy relationship between counselors who coax abuse charges from frightened kids and the social-service programs that pay them for eliciting horror stories. "By viewing men with suspicion and fear, we are driving them farther away from their families," write Brott and Parke...
Given the killers' barbarism, it is remarkable that more trekkers were not slain. Elizabeth Garland, 29, an anthropology student at the University of Chicago, remembered to turn off her wristwatch alarm while she lay fear-stricken in her tent; the raiders never found her. Another American, Linda Adams, 53, walked a mile toward a certain death with the other captives, then feigned an asthma attack and was let go. Deanja Walther, 26, a Swiss flight attendant who speaks French, stayed with the English-speaking hostages even though the Hutus let the French-speaking tourists remain at the camp. Walther...
...slain American couple, Rob Haubner, 48, and Susan Miller, 42, were considering early retirement from Intel Corp. and a life of exotic travel when they left for Uganda. They had been in Africa before. "There was no fear," says Eric Pozzo, a friend and former co-worker. "Just nothing but unbridled excitement." Grimacing at the reports of the machete killings, Pozzo says, "These are deaths that you'd not wish on your worst enemy." But in central Africa today enmity is as deep as the forests...