Word: scareful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Democrats speculate that the surveillance may have been financed at the time by political enemies trying to scare Romer off from a Senate run. For now, even if Romer wanted to resign as D.N.C. chairman, it would be tricky politically. People might ask, If Romer had to quit because of a sex scandal, why shouldn't Clinton...
...into the woods to throw up before a race. Picabo, by contrast, can be seen near the starting gate with headphones on, and some dance music by Jamiroquai piping into her nervous system, her limbs swinging through a warmup. While she admits that a few things in life do scare her--including the dark, which she fends off with a night-light--going fast is rarely one of them. "There's no room for fear with speed," she says. "They don't coincide...
...civil rights? Yes, food producers say. When charges against a meat or vegetable get picked up by the national media or aired on a show like Oprah's, they can do millions of dollars in damage before the affected industries can respond. As in the case of the Alar scare, when apple sales plunged and apple growers were devastated, real lives are affected. "The states are reacting to the deep frustration of the food industry," says Steve Kopperud of the American Feed Industry Association. "Farmers and ranchers are not faceless corporations--there is a human element to this...
Only a decade ago, the debate over global warming dealt mainly with whether it was a real problem or a Chicken Little scare story. In theory it made sense: we are burning more and more coal and oil; coal and oil generate carbon dioxide gas; carbon dioxide traps the sun's heat like the glass of a greenhouse. In theory, therefore, the earth's temperature should be on the rise--with potentially disastrous consequences that could include inundated coastlines, drastically altered weather, severe disturbances to agriculture, and tropical diseases' pushing into new territory. But the effect was still too small...
...will be in Chile, whose grapes were ranked the 11th most contaminated produce item on American shelves by the Environmental Working Group, basing its statistics on USDA tests. With scant regulation, there is no reason to think Chilean grapes will not continue to have undetected problems, like the cyanide scare that caused a brief governmental ban on Chilean grapes in the late 1980s...