Word: scareful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate may differ, and the President certainly does, so the collider could make a comeback. But mixed feelings on the Hill could scare away the Japanese, whose hoped-for investment in the project has already proved a tough sell. And if it doesn't survive, the secrets of the universe could be unraveled anyway: a European lab is working on a collider that is nearly as powerful...
Cambridge would be the first city in the state even to consider such a plan. As a result, many business-sensitive citizens and politicians are worried that the measures--especially the strict parking regulations--would scare industry away from the city...
...feels pretty much at home in the society of outcasts where her spaceship has accidentally landed. Eventually they join her in the fight against one of the big, nasty creatures she has unknowingly brought with her. But 29-year-old director David Fincher doesn't yet know how to scare us witless, and the script neglects to develop the kind of human relationships any movie needs to draw us into its web. A lot of good, serious work went into this film, but it lacks the conjurer's touch...
...CIVIL WAR HAS TO REACH A HIDEOUS CODA TO scare off the rest of the world; Yugoslavia has achieved that state of savagery. Calling the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina "tragic, dangerous, violent and confused," U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali seemed to admit that the international community has lost any hope of controlling the desperately bloody dispute , among the enraged republics that formerly made up Yugoslavia. The U.N., he ruled, cannot send more peacekeeping troops into the Balkans because the fighting is too ferocious. All the West can do is tighten the diplomatic thumbscrews and listen to the screams...
...concur on a policy is partly a refraction of concerns that they might only inflame or, worse, get bogged down in Yugoslavia's mess. Diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions against Serbia have not yet been pursued with any seriousness because no one knows if such hardball tactics will scare Milosevic -- or merely strengthen his territorial ambitions. At the moment, there is widespread agreement that recognition of the new Yugoslavia is undesirable until Serbia removes its army from Bosnia. It is a tactic that might have some effect: without recognition, Yugoslavia stands to lose its U.N. seat, as well...