Word: scares
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Indeed, if even the more casual socials set graduate students to worrying, some of the more traditional departments really scare the faint of heart...
...solution he proposes is ill defined but highly unsettling nonetheless: the "well-managed proliferation" of nuclear weapons. Perhaps, he suggests, when some latter-day archduke is assassinated on a bridge in Sarajevo, there will be enough fingers on enough nuclear triggers to scare everyone into salutary paralysis. Among the states that should get the Bomb, he says, is a unified Germany. That prospect appeals to few Germans and virtually no one else. A Germany armed with nuclear weapons would, almost unavoidably, raise the atavistic specter of militarism that would be threatening to neighboring states...
...suitor for Eastern's planes and gates is Northwest Airlines, whose chairman, Alfred Checchi, is a friend of Shugrue's. Will the indictment frighten him off? Not likely. "The die is cast. Eastern has a limited life," says analyst Robert McAdoo. "The indictment may even scare creditors enough to enable a company like Northwest to cut a sweeter deal." Though Eastern's absorption by a rival would increase airline concentration and reduce competition further, some travelers seem untroubled. Says Christopher Witkowski, director of the Aviation Consumer Action Project, a group formed by Ralph Nader: "If the allegations are borne...
...Young is plenty black enough to scare rural whites, as he campaigns in the country towns trying to become the first black Governor elected in the Deep South. His urbane background and contacts, suspect qualities to some black activists, make him even more menacing to poor whites. He is not only "uppity." He is up, while they are still down. As a woman in Baxby, Ga., told a reporter following Young, "I think the coloreds are trying to overpower. That's the way most everyone feels. They're trying to overpower the whites." She is turning against Young the credentials...
...Bruce Davison), a middle-aged couple, watch a hunky guy stroll past them on a Fire Island beach, and their toes curl with wry pleasure. But a New York Times story about a newly discovered condition afflicting homosexual men has the gentle revelers wondering: Is the CIA trying to scare them out of having sex? Best to turn their trademark withering irony into irony about withering. "We got gay restaurants now, and gay doctors," notes Fuzzy (Stephen Caffrey). "And gay cancer...