Word: scared
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...Number of passengers the bomb scare left stranded for hours...
...just six years ago, Kirshner too was flabbergasted by the conclusion. “At first it was quite a scare,” Kirshner says. “When you’ve got something that’s new you worry that it’s wrong. For theorists it is important to be interesting, but for us observers it is really important to be right...
Most “Moderates,” meanwhile, are simply conservatives who are afraid to label themselves as such and scare off their liberal friends, who themselves of course are not that liberal. I offer one tangible example from thefacebook.com. In the interests of privacy and fairness, let us call her Margaret Thatcher. Ms. Thatcher, a member of the Harvard Republican Club, claims in her profile to be a “Moderate,” but has in the past told this very liberal writer that government should get off people’s backs, but should also...
Certainly, this is going to have a powerful effect on those independent viewers Bush is trying to scare into reelecting him. But Bush’s dirty trick—exploiting Sept. 11 in an attempt to recapture the community impulse that led Americans to rally behind the president after 9/11—isn’t going over as well as he had hoped. Already, victims’ families and firefighters’ unions have protested the ads, pointing out that just because Bush was president when terrorists slammed planes into the twin towers does not mean...
...offered after the attacks. Even though this is demonstrably false, as there is little to nothing about Bush’s actual post-9/11 record in them, we hope that voters will take the time to consider Bush’s performance instead of just letting the images scare them into voting...