Word: scareful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...initial return of Yasser Arafat, awaited so long by his Palestinian followers and dreaded by so many Israelis, went surprisingly smoothly. There was one brief scare: two Israelis working for the Israel Broadcasting Authority were seized by Palestinian security personnel for possessing handguns but were later released...
...splintered U.S. Supreme Court said anti-abortion activists have to keep their distance from health clinics, opening the way to treat the protesters' scare-tactics as serious crimes. The majority opinion in the contentious 6-3 vote said a Florida judge did not violate anti-abortion protesters' free-speech rights when he created a 36-foot protective zone around a Melbourne, Fla., clinic. The ruling, however, threw out a ban on picketing within 100 yards of the building. "This was one time where the pro-choice and pro-life people could agree on something," says TIME legal correspondent Andrea Sachs...
...realm of diplomatic debate, and they called for tough sanctions against Pyongyang and preparations for war if necessary. If the North's nuclear program is not stopped, declared Eagleburger, there will be no hope of controlling the spread of nuclear weapons in the world, and "it ought to scare the pants off everybody." Said McCain: "The only thing that convinces people like Kim Il Sung is the threat of force and extinction, and that has to be implicit in the enactment of sanctions...
...Linguistics concentrators get a scare after faculty members announce that the Department of Linguistics will soon assume committee status, potentially eliminating any formal linguistics degree programs. Students succesfully fight the decision and University officials rescind their ruling...
...continued its high level of play in its next game against Princeton when, in losing, 21-10, it gave the defending league champs a big scare. As the crowd filtered out that day to watch the Head of the Charles races, one student said, excitedly: "If we can scare Princeton, think what we can do to Yale in The Game...