Word: scared
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...Appropriations committee chairman Robert Junell had legislative budget analysts project the costs to the state and made sure each legislator saw the eye-popping numbers: $600 million over two years. Democratic representative Glen Maxey saw the unsolicited analysis as an end run to scare off undecided members. "It's a higher mountain to climb," Maxey told TIME. And he, for one, has little hope of climbing...
...infringement, the DMCA would require Harvard to remove the network access of repeat offenders. Yet the concept of a "repeat" offender is not well-defined, and we encourage the University to use restraint in removing students' access to the network. Official warnings should be sufficient in most cases to scare students into compliance, and the heavy penalty of losing network access--which, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 has noted, could substantially interfere with course work--should be reserved for more intransigent offenders. In developing this policy, Harvard should make sure students understand what punishments could follow from...
While B.C. never seriously threatened again, Harvard still received a scare when freshman forward Spencer George suffered an injury while converting on a 50-50 tackle...
When the welfare officers came to take three-year-old Archie Roach from his tin-lined house in Framlingham in southeastern Australia, they told his mother they were escorting him to a picnic. His aunt tried to scare them off with a gun, but it wasn't loaded. Institutionalized in a Melbourne orphanage, young Archie was told his family had died in a fire. His minders tried to force his hair straight, breaking comb teeth in his frizzy curls. It was a vain attempt by whites to make an Aboriginal child more like them. It didn't work...
...Appropriations committee chairman Robert Junell had legislative budget analysts project the costs to the state and made sure each legislator saw the eye-popping numbers: $600 million over two years. Democratic representative Glen Maxey saw the unsolicited analysis as an end run to scare off undecided members. "It's a higher mountain to climb," Maxey told TIME. And he, for one, has little hope of climbing...