Word: fears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the Dateline NBC report, in typical TV fashion, wants us to fear, "it could happen in my family too!" Strong inures us to the dangers of self-injury by relegating it only to the victims of the most severe childhood abuse...
...other side of the ball, the Big Green offense has not struck fear in the hearts of its opponents. Its best result came in a 45-24 loss to Colgate...
...Freedom Forum and held at the Newseum in New York. Featured speakers were leading lights from the New York Times and thestreet.com, counterbalanced by a mutual fund guru and a Yale economist. Everyone agreed on the easy part: Business news has never been better business. But there was fear in the air -- even the most bearish press coverage has had little effect on the individual investor's buy-now-and-hold-forever ethos that has fed the current seven-year bull market. Everybody listens, but no one ever sells. Which poses the big questions: If and when a crash starts...
...answer may be simple: fear of a lawsuit. About half the states recognize a right of publicity, which generally keeps people from commercially exploiting another's name or face without his or her consent. These laws make licensing arrangements necessary, and so far, there's no Monica licensing deal. Clinton enjoys these protections too, but few public officials have deemed the cost and bad publicity of a lawsuit worth the bother. Moreover, a government official's lawsuit may violate free-speech protections...
Such 12th-grade science is all very well, but Glenn and his fellow humans will be forgiven a few twinges of disgust and fear at the presence of the roach-o-nauts. It's less than two years since the embattled space station Mir was plagued by the presence of a single floating cockroach -- which, not surprisingly, came aboard by accident. NASA moved to calm fears Monday: "They won't be infesting space," laughed payload coordinator Rud Moe. It is, after all, worth $5,000 to the agency if the bugs check in and check out. All the same, perhaps...