Word: scareful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because their disease is more acute, Type I diabetics have been particularly motivated to adopt strict treatment regimens. "The long-term complications of this disease scare the hell out of me," declares Ken McDonald, a 45-year-old computer engineer from Wellesley, Mass. Instead of sticking with the traditional treatment of two insulin shots a day, he began what is called "intensive therapy" four years ago. In that approach, he receives insulin more or less continuously, as needed. Around his waist McDonald wears an insulin pump the size of a pager, which infuses the hormone through a slender needle positioned...
Everyone still hopes no one has to go to war against Iraq. But the only chance of avoiding it -- perhaps -- is to scare Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. The only way to do that is to threaten war louder than ever and mean it -- and get into position to fight, not just defensively if Saddam is mad enough to start anything further, but offensively if need be to force him out. That was the essential meaning of President Bush's high-volume announcement last week that the U.S. is sending new forces to the gulf, perhaps...
...complex. Especially when dealing with an adversary like Saddam, whose future intentions are hidden, and with allies whose own interests are so different, the U.S. needs to keep a variety of signals afloat. Part of the message must sound unavoidably paradoxical: the best hope of avoiding war is to scare Saddam by making a credible threat of waging it, and the only way to make such a threat credible is by really meaning...
...DiNatale, senior associate at the McCormack Institute at UMass/Boston, after the second televised Weld-Silber debate: "It was the night before Halloween and people were waiting for him to scare them, but he didn't."--Oct. 31 in the Boston Herald...
...rejiggering work arrangements is relatively easy. The more subtle changes necessary to successfully manage a culturally diverse work force often scare the daylights out of even the best-intentioned executives. Many find themselves for the first time adrift in uncharted territory. Workers don't follow familiar codes of behavior. Bosses must rethink the way they evaluate people and unlearn habits that can alienate or confuse employees from different backgrounds...