Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curb anticipated Medicare spending by an additional $18 billion, moving well toward the g.o.p. position in last year's showdown. For congressional Democrats, this amounted to an act of betrayal. Come 2000, and a Democratic challenger like, say, House minority leader Dick Gephardt might well recycle the devastating Medicare scare ads of 1996, this time aimed at the Vice President...
...hard to scare the bejesus out of people in matters existential--like When am I dead? At one time the notion of removing body parts was so ghoulish that families hardly discussed it and doctors, in the infancy of transplant technology, rarely raised it. Even now, after decades of increasing public comfort, the thought that a hospital might be eyeing you not as a patient to be saved but as a new liver for Mickey Mantle is very spooky...
STRAWBERRIES Biggest scare since Alar--remember that? Kids and berries take...
...Crimson survived the scare and escaped with the upset intact, maintaining its share of the Ivy League lead...
...being in the closet" as a Republican while here at Harvard, comparing the historically homosexual hiding place with her own reticence about her political beliefs. Such a comparison is disingenuous at best, downright offensive at worst. Homosexuals have been actively discriminated against from the Holocaust to the Red Scare, and I am not aware of any such movements to silence, haunt, terrorize, deny the rights of and oppress Republicans...