Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter bomb scare in the Aiken Computer Laboratories caused the evacuation of Piece Hall yesterday morning...
ECAC cellar-dweller Dartmouth should provide the Crimson with what it needs--a win. The Big Green is 0-9-1 in its last ten games, although it gave the Crimson a Big scare back in January...
...dust clears from the Patriots relocation scare, support for the $700 million project appears to have diminished. The new Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, who also owns Foxborough Stadium, will keep the football club in Massachusetts. Thus, there is no longer an urgent need to entice the owner with the benefits of a state-funded football wonderland. And now liberal state politicians are wondering aloud whether other projects might better serve their constituents...
Grease barely stops for a breath; if it did the audience would realize that there's nothing there. The only attempt at drama, Rizzo's pregnancy scare, comes in the final scene of the play and rings embarrassingly false. The characters are such empty stereotypes that Sandy's costume change in the finale makes her almost unrecognizable-without her white dress and ponytail there's nothing left of the character...
...much as they scare us with their reactionary, knee-jerk rhetoric, Perot and Limbaugh scare Washington even more, Politicians tremble when they sense that public opinion, which they thought was theirs to manipulate, is escaping their control. Even though Limbaugh and Perot exploit our cynicism to promote themselves, they unwittingly create an opportunity for the public to engage itself more constructively in political life...