Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After years of slinging political epithets against the University, then, it appears city leaders may finally be throwing a scare into Harvard, and that the University is willing to change its policies. If passed, the anti-expansion ordinance will have two effects. Sullivan predicts: It will directly limit the uses to which industrial land may be put, all but outlawing the conversion of residential housing to academic use, and "Perhaps even more significantly, it will require the University to sit and talk with community groups before taking any steps that will affect them at all, even if they are allowed...
...portrays both the loss and the continuity in this irrevocable process of change. Author William Wharton creates a middle-aged hero who must simultaneously witness the rapid decline of his father and the growing independence of his own son. This summary may scare off droves of readers. Living through such an experience is bad enough; why borrow trouble by vicariously sharing someone else's? But Dad is more than a chronicle of pain and dissolution. It shows how stories that began with love can end that...
Throughout the closing weeks of the campaign, Giscard had prophesied darkly that since Mitterrand was backed by the Communists, his presidency would bring chaos-and Communists-into government. Giscard was using scare tactics that had worked for the center-right ever since the time of De Gaulle. The presence of a strong Communist Party, representing around 20% of the electorate, had always blocked the left from coming to power under the Fifth Republic. This time, though, Frenchmen no longer seemed as alarmed as in the past by a Communist Party that had polled a humiliatingly low 15.3% in the first...
Giscard's scare tactics and Mitterrand's bombast were designed to affect French voters decisively when they go to the polls May 10 for the second round of balloting. But because of the peculiarity of the French electoral system, the final outcome depends not only on the win ners but also on the losers of the first-round vote. Though Giscard and Mitterrand captured the greatest number of ballots in the first vote, thus eliminating the eight other candidates for the presidency, two of the los ers, Neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac and Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais...
...first shipload of De Loreans is due to arrive next week at Long Beach, Calif. More than 10,000 people have put down as much as $2,000 for options to buy the car, and De Lorean is confident that the high sticker price will not scare away customers. Says he: "Our buyer is someone in the $70,000-a-year income bracket or over, and he is pretty much unaffected by minor economic travails...