Word: scared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the grape panic and apple scare merged in the public consciousness, they were actually quite different: the punctured-grapes incident was an example of Government action in the face of an intentional poisoning; Alar on apples was an instance of Government inaction following a scientific dispute over risk vs. benefit in the case of a particular chemical agent...
...public imagination -- make regulatory decisions politically easy. But while all the fuss was being made over the slight possibility that some fresh fruit had been poisoned, hundreds of other perils -- less interesting, less photogenic, more complex and difficult to address -- were overlooked. Regulation that swoops down on the scare of the week keeps attention diverted from the problems individuals can do less about, like acid rain or the country's overflowing trash dumps...
...produces 90% of all U.S. catfish, some 100,000 migratory cormorants are biting into the profits by feasting on as much as $6 million worth of catfish a year. Because the birds are largely protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, catfish farmers have resorted to elaborate tactics to scare the birds away: screaming fireworks, propane cannons that boom every 15 to 20 minutes, amplified recordings of bird distress calls and even harassment by helicopter...
Demonstrators said the Daybreak Crisis Pregnancy Center, located above the Wursthaus restaurant, is operated by anti-abortion activists who try to scare women into not having abortions...
...Steve Bowsher 3 0-1 .000 0-0 .0001-0.3 0 0 0 0.0 HARVARD 20 495-1226 .404 11 5-318 .362 297-434 .684 751-37.6299 178 1402 70.1 Opponents 20 547-1179 .464 95-230 .413 336-508 .661 872-43.6299 150 1525 76.3 Red Scare...