Word: scared
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...this feels like dEja vu, it should. The last banking scare arose only in March. Then, a brief uptick in stock prices allowed banks to report better than expected financial results. But the worries have returned with the recent souring of the global economy. The bank sector's bad loans have increased relentlessly, growing 64% to $302 billion between March 1997 and September 2001. Despite its promises to overhaul the financial system, and hints last week of another economy-boosting package, the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has done nothing substantive to alleviate the problem. Just last week...
...still await an apology, let alone compensation. Only then, they say, will they be able to move on. In the meantime, they continue to pass their angry distrust down to their children. "We have a tradition," says Huang, who caught the plague from his dead friend's socks. "We scare naughty kids by warning, 'The Japanese planes are coming...
Fuzzy math and scare tactics might help green groups raise money, but when they, abetted by an environmentally friendly media, overplay their hand, it invites scathing critiques like that of Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg, whose book The Skeptical Environmentalist debunks environmental exaggerations...
...summer scare last year was shark attacks. This year it's West Nile virus--a threat that is in some ways more frightening because you don't have to go near the water to get hurt. Death this summer is being spread by mosquitoes hatched in our backyard. The infestation, first reported in the U.S. in New York City in 1999, has reached nearly every state east of the Rockies. Seven people, all in Louisiana, have died so far this year, and health officials believe that an eighth man, who died in Mississippi last week, was infected. Neighbors have practically...
...registry accidentally leaked information two days after the launch, sending letters to households in Moriguchi that contained the ID numbers, gender information and birthdates of other people. Adding insult to injury: Japanese cows were given a 10-digit ID in the wake of last fall's mad cow scare. Humans, who get 11 digits, are feeling a little like livestock...