Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smitten by fresh faces, unblemished by Washington?not only Carter and Reagan but also, toward the end, by Democrat Jerry Brown. Democratic favorites fell like bowling pins. Henry Jackson, the early front runner, did not even survive the first half of the primary season, and even Carter got a scare at the end. Liberals fared worst of all: the Democrats rejected Fred Harris, Mo Udall, Birch Bayh, Sargent Shriver and Milton Shapp...
...they also make business planning difficult. Ahmed Lajavar-di, chairman of the Behshahr Industrial group, complains that the new rules are confusing. He wants a firm long range policy instead, "so that we know what to expect." Worse, adds a Western businessman in Tehran, the plethora of laws might scare off foreign investment...
...Paul A. Samuelson at last week's symposium. A few suspect that the alarm over U.S. scientific performance may be a ploy to win more money for research. Daniel S. Greenberg, editor and publisher of a Washington-based newsletter called Science and Government Report, wrote during a similar scare two years ago that "the elders of science are possessed by visions of doom" that can only be exorcised by more money. He finds nothing in the NSF report to change his view...
...Laudable goals, but the manner in which Silber pursued them has angered many of the deans, professors and students on the Charles River campus. He was told by the board of regents' chairman when ousted from Texas: "You are the most intelligent, articulate and persistent man around. You scare the hell out of the incompetents above you." Now Silber's arrogant, autocratic leadership-one Boston professor has called him an "intellectual bully"-has worried those beneath him. Incompetents and stars alike, they are trying to get the university's trustees to dismiss...
...along with their conventional mail, a rather unconventional letter. It was from Edward W. Powers, then director of employee relations, and it cautioned them to "think carefully" before signing a union card under District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America. District 65, the letter said, has engaged in "scare tactics" in its unionizing drives both on the main campus and in the Med area, and has "tried to make Harvard look like a criminal" by "distorting or misrepresenting facts" in its newsletters to Harvard workers...