Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...petition challenging the compensation for the executives at Time Warner, top officers of the company quickly paid a visit to negotiate a deal: the group agreed to drop its challenge on pay, and the company would eliminate its takeover defenses, including so-called poison-pill provisions designed to scare away potential bidders...
...threw a scare into the Crimson in the next game. Harvard went into the game with only one hour's rest after the Brown game, but still managed to hold on for an 8-7 victory...
...never forget that." Secure but no longer impregnable in Parliament, Major and his Conservatives need quickly to address the serious discontent registered at the ballot box. Britons may not have thrown the bums out, as anti-incumbent forces have been urging elsewhere, but they gave the government a formidable scare...
Holyoke Center and Au Bon Pain were evacuated yesterday afternoon due to a bomb scare caused by a "suspicious object" that firefighters later determined to be a fuse...
...didn't know what was going on for a while," said Terry C. Sullivan, head teller at Cambridge Trust. She said fire officials did not tell employees and customers that there was a bomb scare, although they were told to evacuate quickly...