Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claimed to have overcome an addiction to heroin, was indeed abusing unspecified drugs. A record-industry source told TIME that two weeks ago Cobain's wife Courtney Love, front woman for the group Hole, gathered doctors and friends together in Seattle, the couple's home, to try to scare Cobain into dealing with his problem; Nirvana's managers even threatened to drop Cobain from their roster unless he got cleaned up. The intervention seemed to work, for Cobain checked into a California treatment center. But according to a missing-persons report filed by his mother, he fled early last week...
There are signs that Pyongyang is trying hard not to deepen the crisis. Its talk of destroying Seoul may scare the uninitiated, but this "is not particularly unusual" for North Korean propaganda, says Ezra Vogel, the CIA's national intelligence officer for East Asia. In a statement by a Foreign Ministry spokesman that the U.S. considered authoritative, Pyongyang only vaguely threatened to withdraw from the nonproliferation treaty if Team Spirit resumed in 1994 and other Western pressures were applied -- but it did not denounce Washington's decision to send Patriots...
...They gave us a scare a couple of times," Porter said. "They were not about to give up-- a typical characteristic of Army team. At halftime we just talked about how we had to look at the game like we were behind, not just hold...
...office in Denver. "We decided to get out right after the earthquake," says Dubi Friedman, 47, owner of a clothing-design firm in the northern L.A. suburb of Valencia, who is moving to Las Vegas with his wife Irit and two children. "The damage is nothing. It's the scare. You go to bed downstairs with your shoes on. You don't sleep. You just sit there waiting for it every night...
...bomb scare at Memorial Hall Saturday night threatened to cancel a scheduled a cappella concert, but University officials allowed the concert to proceed after determining there was no danger, Harvard Police Lt. William K. Donaldson said yesterday...