Word: scared
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...although the House Committee on Government Reform stopped short of conjuring up the ghost of Joe McCarthy in an attempt to scare Mark McGwire into admitting his once-legendary bat speed was fueled with THG and HGH, the theater—or hearing, to be official—was imbued with a sufficient sense of the surreal to make any rational baseball fan question what good could reasonably come from such staged drama...
...Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Randy Wolf. Just as at the reactionary height of the Cold War, Congress has taken up an issue sure to arouse passions in an effort to gain a measure of publicity and acclaim. The steroid scandal is quickly becoming the sport’s Red Scare, and the intervention of Congress is a campaign to seize the moral high ground in the affair and elevate the image of government at the expense of baseball players who have been hamstrung by mistrust...
...shareholders' lawsuits aren't enough to scare execs straight, they also face a raft of new regulations. Under the Sarbanes-Oxley law, chief executives must now personally sign off on financial statements. Auditors are poking around with greater impunity, and public companies must certify that they're documenting and testing internal accounting procedures, resulting in "an unprecedented level of scrutiny" for investors, according to a recent report by Huron Consulting. Finally, more cops are on the beat. From a budget of just under $400 million in 2000, the Securities and Exchange Commission's haul this year is estimated...
...their shoulder and attempting to solve every problem. David Stack Yorba Linda, California, U.S. Strained Relations Re Your story on President Bush's visit to Europe [Feb. 28]: Bush's purpose in crawling back to Europe was to thwart the development of a united Europe and to cajole, browbeat, scare or even threaten Europeans into submission to America's policies of global vandalism and institutionalized lawlessness. Some in the U.S. seem to think that the American dead in European war cemeteries are a more than adequate and compelling reason for European subservience to U.S. dictates. That is bunkum. Bush should...
...film continues in this vein for its first hour or so, jumping from scare to scare with a remarkable dexterity that never gets tired, due mainly to a refreshing filmic playfulness. It employs jump-cutting in bizarre places; a couple scenes are sped up for an enhanced psychological effect; and Nakata crafts images with foregrounded objects or bodies that seem disjointed in the frame—a subtle effect appropriate to the film’s tone...