Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even more frightening. What did Rockefeller have in mind, or was he thinking at all, when he had the ruthless drug laws enacted? One of the undergraduates arrested, a pre-law student who plans to try to continue with school while awaiting trial, said after his arrest, "I'm scared to death." Is Rockefeller satisfied with this kind of response, or with his severe laws, which scare people to death instead of solving the drug problem...
...remains in a dream where Strand only uses its structure. Burning the Empty Nests shouldn't scare you away just because it has a "symbolic structure." Despite the volume's occasional unevenness, its only bad effect is the craving for more it leaves behind...
...REAL ENEMIES of Chilean economic and social progress were Chile's upper class and the United States. From the first month after Allende's election, right--wing extremist groups tried assassination and terror to spark a middle class Red scare and a military revolt. Management struck factories which workers forced to stay open; workers established committees for self-defense and to distribute goods directly to the people...
...taken away from the Pentagon and reallocated to civilian jetliners. Nobody seems to have consulted Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, who protested angrily. The result was a "compromise," under which the Pentagon will keep 600,000 bbl. of its fuel at least for a while. Also, the FEO prompted scare headlines by announcing, in one set of hastily prepared allocation regulations, that gasoline production would be cut 25% below 1972 output, and took a full day to correct the figure...
...Jackson campaign. In his defeat of Mayor Sam Massell last October, Jackson polled 21% of the white vote. That was a considerable achievement. Massell gave the contest an appallingly racist tinge by branding Jackson a do-nothing and a potential black firebrand in a last-ditch effort to scare up white support. The Massell strategy backfired with the voters and many whites quietly switched their allegiance to Jackson...