Word: scareder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Belmares watched intently as his six-year-old son James III eagerly pushed the keys of a Texas Instruments home computer in a Target discount store in Dallas. Belmares, the father of five children, had previously been scared off by the price tag on the machines, but last week...
Hendrik Hertzberg '65 watched the initial Kennedy speech with fellow Crimson editors in the newspaper's Plympton St. building. "Everybody was scared to death, literally scared to death," he recalls. "There was a lot of fear that this was going to lead to, well, that the moment had come."
"We were scared of war throughout," recalls Douglas C. Dillon '31, then Secretary of the Treasury and a member of the ad hoc White House committee formed to advise the President. A longtime Harvard visiting committee member and former president of the Board of Overseers, Dillon adds that the two...
The intransigence may be shortsighted, but it is understandable. To be sure, Scandinavian countries are making a go of punishments other than prison. But the U.S. has a murder rate five times that of Denmark, 19 times Norway's. In the U.S., an inmate stands a 1-in-3,300...
The state of the economy will be a major issue in many campaigns, and the predominant one in some. Until recently, Democrats had expected to score heavily by assailing Reaganomics for producing disastrous unemployment and interest-rate levels, and many Republicans had been running scared. That is still true in...