Word: frightener
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...Vice President too was a designated tough guy, to help give Clinton some cover. He heckled the enemy, repeatedly interrupting Gingrich during his presentation of Medicare options. At one point, Gingrich had to bite his lip when Gore cut in with the warning that "we can't frighten senior citizens. We must all guard against that." Gingrich, who had watched the Democrats spend millions of dollars last year attacking "Republican cuts" in Medicare, said nothing, having been counseled to stay calm at such moments. Gore remained feisty, however--so much so that rumors began circulating that he was throwing bones...
...strength of Penn's fresh man superstar doesn't frighten she Harvard team which faces the Quakers in its next Ivy League competition on February...
...conservative caution, Gingrich, one of the most absorbent if not always discriminating minds in national politics, has concocted a stew of beliefs that blends the sunny economics of Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp, the stern moralism of the Christian right and enough giddy futurism either to excite or to frighten his followers. He dubbed himself a "conservative revolutionary," one of the greatest political oxymorons ever invented. He saw that it simply wouldn't do to carp about the Great Society. He invented something to replace it, something, he says, that is better: the Conservative Opportunity Society...
...alleges that the Huggins Center hastened the death of an elderly couple; the wife stopped going to her oncologist for cancer treatments after going to the center. At a hearing that began last week, the Colorado attorney general's office charged that Huggins used fraud and "pseudo science" to frighten patients into undergoing treatment. If the judge finds against Huggins, he might lose his license...
...show of strength can often frighten leaders into conforming to a more humane agenda. Richard Nixon panicked when anti-war demonstrators flooded into Washington to protest his invasion of Cambodia. The recent Million Man March proves that working and middle class resistance to today's reactionary climate can be tapped. Liberals need to flex their might in the streets. Corporations should be held accountable for using Third World slave labor. Cops like Mark Fuhrman should fear for their lives...