Word: scared
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...will it? Manufacturers in major industries targeted by the EPA ? paper, metal, oil and automobiles ? are desperate to stop the information going online. They claim the statistics will confuse the public and unnecessarily scare people who live close to the factories. Here's another scary thought: Could the EPA be abdicating its responsibility to the environment by throwing it all over to a supposedly active online community...
JERUSALEM: The Israeli government plans to force Yasser Arafat to crack down on Islamic militants by freezing up to two-thirds of the Palestinian Authority's revenue. But this strategy may backfire, reports TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "It's meant to scare Arafat into action," says Beyer, "but what it is actually doing is antagonizing him into continued inaction...
...juror following a quiz session to determine whether jurors were prejudiced by last week's Brooklyn arrests. Duffy did not give a reason for dropping the juror but said it wasn't related to last week's events. Tensions over the hometown trial increased some more after a bomb scare Monday at the World Trade Center, which forced the evacuation of several hundred people. It turned out that the package had exposed wires but was not a bomb. Prosecutors hope to prove Yousef and suspected cohort Eyad Ismoil were responsible for driving the bomb-laden van into the trade center...
...students were instructed either to receive shots or to show proof of immunization. This involved standing on an interminably long line in Loker Commons. We all received a stamp from UHS, showing that we had been immunized at some point in our life, and presumably, this ended the measles scare for most of the campus...
...satisfactory take, keeping the blood from multiple scratches hidden from director John Huston. And the kind of actor who in Cape Fear smashed an egg against his bare chest and let it drip unheeded--metaphorical blood this time, from a profoundly wounded psyche--as he proceeded to scare the wits out of Polly Bergen...