Word: scareful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...equivalent of hundreds of cans of diet soda a day; similarly, a person would have had to eat thousands of apples a day to get the maximum tolerated dose of Alar, a fruit-ripening chemical used by growers until it was withdrawn from the market because of a cancer scare. If as few as five mice out of 200 given these megadoses develop tumors over two years, the substance is usually labeled a carcinogen...
...invoking his past. "The only things that have interested me are the things I've started: the movie of the week, the novel for TV ((he bought Roots for ABC)), building that fourth network from a blank piece of paper. Things that haven't been done before don't scare me. So today I feel euphoric and lucky. I can put all my energy into this new project. Whatever it will...
...ripped apartone end of his couch, and yes, he has provided ascratching post. The Groomer tells him to squirtthe cat in the face with a plant mister when itscratches, "and if that doesn't work, you can tieinflated balloons around the base of the couch;the pop will scare your kitty out of its badhabits." At the IAMS counter you can buy not justbrushes and toys but also tuna-flavored vitamins,cat shampoo, and pet cologne...
...leadership. The resplendently overmuscled image of Arnold blinded the audience to the image of the Leader of the Free World. In the real world, at a polling station in Manchester, a graphic artist named Doug Rasmun explained his vote for Buchanan: "As a Republican, I think we have to scare some sense into Bush before it's too late...
...that party power brokers could lure a big-name contender into the fray -- it remains a five-man race. Despite nudges and nods from Albany, the overhyped Mario Cuomo write-in campaign (4%) drooped as badly as New York State's credit rating. Clinton's resurrection was enough to scare off potential candidates like Congressman Richard Gephardt and Senator Lloyd Bentsen. The message from New Hampshire was an unequivocal one: "No guts, no glory...