Word: scareful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pesticides within two years, then set its sights on 49 more as part of an out-of-court settlement with consumer advocates, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The losers in the deal, the American Crop Protection Association, accused the NRDC of trying to ''create a national food scare...
...long got used to the idea that nothing around here -- nothing, that is, except our intimate, bare suffering -- has anything to do with us. For months now, all the NATO pilots have done above us with the blood-curdling sound of their planes' engines has been to scare away the pigeons that have gathered for an odd crumb of our meager but collective lunch...
...Armed Forces apparently wants to stymie the talks between the U.S. and Pyongyang, but some North Korean diplomats have suggested its sights are set lower: all the Ministry want is to halt U.S.-Japanese naval maneuvers off the Korean Coast, which the brass has unilaterally construed as an unfair scare tactic...
...fecklessness and made the U.S. seem an unreliable superpower to friends and foes, he spoke only tangentially of living up to "American commitments." Translation, in words the Administration would certainly not use: Clinton had got himself into a box by repeatedly threatening to invade Haiti in order to scare the Cedras clique into leaving. If the Carter mission could not talk them into decamping, he would really have to do it -- or send the world a message that threats from Washington can blithely be ignored because when the crunch comes, the U.S. will always shrink from using military force...
...scare was barely lessened by the fact that the Clintons had fortunately been spending the night across Pennsylvania Avenue at Blair House while White House workers repaired faulty duct work. Or that Corder, by all accounts, appears to have been on only a suicide mission and was not angry with Clinton or his policies. The unlikely incident confirmed all too publicly what security officials have long feared in private: the White House is vulnerable to sneak attack from the air. "For years I have thought a terrorist suicide pilot could readily divert his flight from an approach to Washington...