Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Congress considers NAFTA this week, we hope that it is able to look beyond Perot's scare tactics and the narrow interests of pressure groups to see the good of the nation as a whole. NAFTA is a large step forward, rejecting it would be an even greater step backward...
Still, Rossello dismisses the cultural-colonialism argument as an irrelevant scare tactic. The U.S. is becoming more tolerant of diversity rather than less, he says, and Puerto Ricans will be as free to embrace their own traditions as they are today...
...crossing paths in a series of coincidences so contrived they are reminiscent of a Thomas Hardy novel, and accumulating moving experiences at a mind-numbing rate. They are united by common experience in the opening and closing sequences of the film: in the former case by the medfly scare, in the latter by an earthquake. (This portrayal of L.A. as a shimmering and perilous mirage is so hackneyed and off-base as to induce nausea...
...says Robert New, the school-board chairman. "We have board members now saying that if a program is controversial, then maybe we should take it out." Yet Charleston's school board does not include a single Christian conservative. Mere fear of the religious right is enough these days to scare school boards into submission...
Some Central Square businesspeople hope that weather or retaliatory action will scare the group away...