Word: scareful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: So what was it? Not a crash. Not even a panic, really. But when a scare in Hong Kong wafts west and sends the usually buoyant Dow plummeting as much as 230 points from the opening bell, something significant may be afoot ? even if things did settle in at down 186.88 by closing time...
LONDON: So you're a mad scientist. You want your experiments to scare people the world over, but your budget is minuscule. Well, you could do a lot worse than cloning headless tadpoles...
With a little over five minutes remaining, Harvard received a scare. A Central Connecticut cross ricocheted off a Harvard defender's head and barely escaped wide of the goal...
...every word of the last 40 pages. Some dialogue is amusing--Professor Spiro of Yale speaks of "feeling like a knight, very macho" when treating acute pain--and other comments are slightly disturbing: Professor Fields of California asserts that "part of what we do as physicians is to scare people" to add to placebo effectiveness. Anne Harrington herself contributes to the discussion of the placebo and each discipline's interpretation of its origin. After a lively exchange of philosophies, the end result is one of measured synthesis and little surprise, as each speaker eventually acknowledges both the reality...
...lowest seed to advance to the next round of the playoffs, we had to play the No. 1 seed. We actually gave them a scare, rallying twice to keep the score close, but alas, our season ended in the second round...