Word: scared
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...Among some congressional hawks, anxieties run high about the apparent timidity of the American strategy: too few troops, too much dependence on the Northern Alliance, precision bombing that's too precise to scare the Taliban but not precise enough to spare civilians. Behind closed doors-and always out of the President's earshot-some of these complaints have reached the Administration. "War is a miserable business," says Arizona Senator John McCain. "Let's get on with it." Fissures in the international coalition are becoming visible, with Europeans encountering more hostile public opinion. In Britain support for the war has slipped...
...premier monster in Monsters, Inc. is not a hairless green ogre, however, but the esteemed James P. Sullivan, nicknamed “Sulley” (John Goodman)—a genial hulk with long blue fur and purple spots, always accompanied by his loyal but absent-minded Scare Assistant, Mike Wakowski (Billy Crystal), who resembles a one-eyed green pea. Both work for Monsters, Incorporated—an energy plant in the well-run township of Monstropolis, managed by a certain Henry J. Waternoose (James Coburn), who scuttles around on his many legs lamenting the energy crisis. Monstropolis...
Despite a false scare over some white powder found at Princeton’s Frist Campus Center last Monday, anthrax has not been detected on either campus...
Sometimes it takes a disaster to bring out hidden strengths in our leaders. The anthrax scare may have emptied offices on Capitol Hill last Wednesday, but Representatives J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, Diane Watson of California and Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, among others, demonstrated a heretofore unrecognized capacity to get jiggy with it in a new music video by rapper MC HAMMER, filmed by the Capitol's reflecting pool. In keeping with the song's inspirational message, which Hammer described as "take it head on, be strong, stand up and fight," the pols were at their feistiest...
Cipro was introduced in 1987 as a broad-spectrum antibiotic useful in combatting urinary tract and respiratory infections. With $1.4 billion in sales last year, Cipro is Bayer?s biggest-selling drug. As the anthrax scare spread in the U.S., Bayer?s shares bounced up about 45%. But analysts caution that the anthrax fears will produce only a short-term benefit for Bayer. "We think that the upside from Cipro is full-priced into the share price," Deutsche Bank said in an e-mail to its clients last week...