Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line serving eight Western states and parts of Mexico and Canada. The Government charged that Hughes and associates conspired to manipulate the price of the company's stock up and down by, among many other things, flooding the market with large holdings in an illegal effort to scare its directors to terms. Hughes was charged with seven violations carrying a maximum prison sentence of 28 years and $34,000 in fines...
Simon also announced a revised set of allocations, put together hastily by his Federal Energy Office to meet a Congress-set deadline. They contained one monumental blooper: as originally put forth, the regulations would have forced refineries to cut gasoline production 25%. After a day of scare headlines and stock market rout, the FEO confessed its error and announced that it would really order only a 5% reduction, based on 1972 levels...
Holy Cross managed to give the Yardlings a scare, however, as it battled back from a 33-39 halftime deficit to tie the score, 78-78, when the buzzer sounded the end of regulation play...
...Papadopoulos regime started an extensive campaign in the press against the people of Athens, Thessaloniki and Patra who had participated in the revolt. They had to scare the population once more with threats of an impending communist revolt, they had to consolidate their hold on the armed forces and they had to polish the tarnished "stability...
James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department, said his department has not yet hired a black economics professor because no qualified applicants have been available when the positions were open. He said this was partially due to "the extremely scare number of black Ph.Ds in economics...