Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard officials received a scare over the weekend when the U.S. House of Representatives killed and then later resurrected an immigration reform package that would allow Harvard to continue its sponsorship of the Eighth Annual International AIDS Conference...
...with a poignant warmth. The digressive book is given to flashback and careful detail, and Thernstrom writes intimately about Lee and their frank discussions. It seems odd to some that events like Lee sabotaging her own chances of going to MIT, or Lee's first sexual encounter and pregnancy scare would be included in a popular work like The Dead Girl. But in reading, it becomes obvious that Thernstrom wants--indeed needs--the reader to know the artistic and capricious girl she knew. And although Lee, in Thernstrom's candid depiction of her, is not always likeable, the reader never...
Thus the free market would prevail. Publishing crime statistics will do more than scare students; it will lead to increased campus security and thus, lower incidence of crime...
Sure enough, while Dartmouth did give number-three New Hampshire a scare, running up a 14-0 first quarter lead, the Big Green had to hold on for a 21-21 tie to be the only Ivy team not to lose in action last week...
...frightful fairy tale: if they couldn't find the wisdom and courage to reduce spending and raise revenue themselves, a crude wrecking ball would knock many billions from government programs. The threat of an indiscriminate "sequester" of funds, the story went, would be so politically devastating as to scare the government into facing its fiscal responsibilities. That fantasy, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act five years ago, projected a balanced budget by fiscal 1991, which begins Oct. 1. But the brutal fact is this: the nation will face a deficit of about $200 billion even...