Word: scares
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...millennium once before, and the records from that one don't specify much about the event. We really don't know what'll happen when the end of December rolls around. That's the whole idea behind the Y2K bug hype. The possibilities for disaster are real enough to scare...
...market that has suffered through a trendless, choppy five-month period. With no conviction about its current direction, many traders always pause to remember the two one-day 500-point declines, both of which took place in October. Even Fed chief Alan Greenspan got into the October-scare game last week, talking about how stocks might be too risky. Of course, he immediately said they might not be. But he referenced the Dutch Tulip Bulb craze, and that sent the market into still another October tizzy. It finished the week down 630 points, or 5.9%. In November, we wouldn...
...students approach an assistant principal and say a girl has brought a gun to school because she wants to scare a boy who continues to sexually harass her. The girl is in a class on the third floor, the student who may have been harassing her is not in this class, and the bell to change classes will ring in 15 minutes. What...
Bobby gets a lot of tough love at home. As suave and polite as he seems to outsiders, he has "two personalities," says his stepmother Willie. "He's a con artist." His parents kicked him out of the house in August, trying to scare him after he came home drunk at 5 a.m. Later his father told him to do something, and Bobby refused. "I got tired of hearing what he wasn't going to do," says Bobby Sr., who smacked him with a stick, hurting his feelings more than anything. Bobby walked to a gas station and called police...
...faceted challenges that face our nation, from U.N. bills and international peace negotiations, to Social Security and budget reform, to the seemingly escalating cycles of hate and violence in America's streets, schools and homes. Politics have become a distraction, not an answer--an escapist reality that must surely scare someone besides...