Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...France, as elsewhere, polls are intriguing but uncertain barometers. Most observers attributed the rise in support for the rightist and centrist parties to the concerted political scare strategy of the Gaullists. Blithely ignoring a constitutional provision that France's President is above partisan politics, Georges Pompidou, in a television interview, spearheaded a Gaullist campaign designed to convince French voters that a leftist victory would mean chaos at best, a Communist takeover at worst. To which Gaullist Premier Pierre Messmer added a prediction that it would bring about "a demolition of the Fifth Republic...
...course," said the President, "the party makes meek eyes, in an effort to please and not scare anyone" -so much so that Frenchmen really do not believe that the Communists would dare to seize power in France. "Yet did you believe that Prussia and Saxony in 1945 and Czechoslovakia in 1948 would become Communist states? Nonetheless, Communist regimes were installed there and remain very solidly entrenched." Pompidou hinted that a leftist win would plunge France into a repetition of the massive civil disorders of 1968 that led frightened French voters into re-electing the Gaullists...
While the Crimson varsity was throwing a scare into Columbia, the Crimson J.V. squad was downstairs in the third floor fencing room battling the Lion "Cubs." And, unfortunately for Harvard fans, the J.V.s were no more successful in its contest than the "top floor contingent," losing...
With that loss in mind, Marion is not likely to take any chances. "You never know what you'll meet up with against Trinity," he said. "In that respect they scare me a little...
...more of their business directly with the public and a mere 20% for their parent organization. If the brokerage subsidiary of a mutual fund expects to trade, say, $20 million worth of stock for the fund every year, it could join an exchange only if it could scare up another $80 million of business from outsiders...