Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...much a candidate's age as how he wears it that weighs on voters. William Henry Harrison was 67 when he ran for President in 1840, and judging from what passed for press reports at the time, no one seemed to care. Democrats tried to frighten voters after Eisenhower fell ill in 1955. "They ran ads saying that if you elected Eisenhower, you were going to get Nixon because [Ike] was going to die," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania...
Unlike many directors who chafe under studio involvement, Howard says, "I grew up comfortably within the system and never felt terribly hindered by it. My instincts don't frighten them." Maybe that's because his instincts are so, well, comfortable. What attracted him to Apollo 13 was not the techno-wizardry but the human story. "The bittersweet quality of Jim Lovell's experience definitely drew me in," says Howard. "Here was a guy, arguably the best-equipped individual to walk on the moon, and the opportunity was pulled out from under him. It was devastating, and we can all relate...
...effects our culture has on our conduct may not always be so obvious, but they are real nonetheless. And what should also frighten us is that almost all of us have enjoyed films and television shows that have drawn on casual violence, casual sex or both. No one group in American society has a monopoly on the enjoyment of such "entertainment;" no one group can proclaim its innocence. Similarly, the moral decline of our nation also recognizes none of the established boundaries that divide our society in almost every other area imaginable...