Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Luckily, the voters took the right path in this referendum. Canceling reform would have set South Africa back, bringing on more violence and world alienation. The scare could have been avoided, however, if no referendum had been called in the first place. Reform in the interest of the majority should have continued without any minority affirmation...
During the forties, Val Newton of RKO Pictures produced a series of romantic, moody horror movies that relied on shadows in the dark--and not pools of blood--to scare its audience...
...People is about fear of the unknown. If that's not enough to scare you, then hop on back to the video store--you can always pick up the 1982 remake with Nastassia Kinski. It prefers its sex and violence to be explicit...
...largest computer-virus scare to date -- a week-long frenzy of hype and high-tech hand-holding that dramatized the vulnerability of the world's 137 million personal computers -- and the gullibility of their users. In the end, the bug's bark was worse than its bite. The National Computer Security Association in Washington reported that 15 computers had been struck in England, 12 in the Netherlands and five in Austria. There were disruptions in Japan, China and New Zealand. Several hundred computers used by South Africa's pharmacists were zapped. But except for a Southern Baptist church near Atlanta...
Last week's outcome, however, left Clinton and Tsongas, both cerebral candidates with a strong sense of purpose, scrapping like ward pols. In Florida Tsongas' best hope in the South, Clinton aired a commercial questioning Tsongas' commitment to maintaining Social Security benefits. When Tsongas accused Clinton of misstatements and scare tactics, Clinton's aides distributed a fact sheet showing that Tsongas had in fact proposed an amendment eight years ago that would have frozen cost of living increases in benefit programs for a year...