Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...files of the FBI have not been opened to Yale or any other educational institution. The FBI has not influenced Yale academic and political activities. The FBI does not have undercover agents at Yale University. The FBI does not sanction and is unaware of "scare" tactics, as alleged. The FBI does not investigate applicants for teaching positions in Yale or any other college or university...
Recently in TIME . . . and other publications I have seen increasing use of "recession," "slump" and "depression" regarding our present business situation. It seems to me that by using these terms we are talking ourselves into a good, all-out depression. This sort of talk scares customers . . . They tighten up their purse strings and wait for more price cuts. Businessmen begin to worry and slash payrolls needlessly. Pretty soon the scare builds up like a snowball going downhill...
...another case the New Haven FBI system has again definitely violated its own code of ethics. This third case is one of scare tactics, employed not by a regular agent, but by one of the FBI's many liaison men. Provost Furniss told the story to the CRIMSON: Late one night recently, an eminently respectable Yale faculty member, a one-time refugee from Nazi Germany, received a mysterious telephone call...
...Provost called the liaison man into his office and told him to cut it out. Thus, in one case the Fill system was discovered using such scare tactics and stopped. The question remains as to how many similar incidents have never been reported, but just brooded over by the victims...
...some mild encouragement; the Dow-Jones industrial average closed last week at 173.49. off 1.71 points. Did the big rise in "shorts" mean that the market was likely to keep on going down? Paradoxically, many Wall Streeters thought it meant just the opposite. They argued that any rise would scare the bears into "covering" (i.e., buy in the stocks they sold short), thus give the market an added boost. On the other hand, if the market dropped further, the bears would also buy so they could take their profits, thus check the drop...