Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...star wars" approach to nuclear weapons shouldn't scare only the Europeans. It would deeply exacerbate the arms race, and make everyone more insecure. Proponents of an ABM system argue that it would actually enhance arms control--first, by giving each side enough security to negotiate deep force reductions, and second, by reducing each side's fear of a preemptive strike. Developing ABM capabilities would supposedly change the arms race into a "defense race...
...Endowment for Divestiture does not scare Harvard because it diverts money from the University--E4D received only about seven or eight grand last year, chickenfeed in a Harvard ledger. The problem is that Harvard sees E4D as threatening the whole socialization process by which Harvard ties alumni into specific class years, each with the specific task of raising as much money as possible. The drop of the Senior Gift participation rate--the percentage of seniors giving to the Class Gift--was over twenty points last year. That was the first year E4D got off the ground, and Harvard can only...
Harvard survived a scare in the bottom of the third when the first two host hitters got to Rubin for a double and a single. Yet, Rubin retired the next three Smith batters on popups to third baseman Trisha Brown, first baseman Joan Cunningham, and shortstop Ellen Sackaroff, respectively...
...longer escape the awful truth, she moans. "All I have left is a corpse that betrayed me." Daughter Marshal takes aim at her mother with Freud and fires accusations of resistance represscion and denial. Then the two plot Daddy's death, considering all the options. We can't scare him to death vegetables are fearless. Son Teddy joins the scheme enlisting the help of his moronic girlfriend. While never appearing onstage, a monstrous nurse named Emerald registers her indignation from time to time with a violent thump on the kitchen door...
...Soviet veto in the Security Council, and he accepted my advice. Sanctions against the Soviet Union and the Jaruzelski government, even a total embargo by the West, were discussed. "If Defense has its way," I told my staff, "we'll have the U.S. in a war scare and the Europeans off the bridge by Christmas." Christmas was three days in the future...