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...fact that you have to apply might scare some people away," Ellner says...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: History - & - Literature | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

This year, we need to find a voice that will speak for us. We need to find a voice that will make the tough sacrifices today to insure our solvency and stability tomorrow. We need to find a voice that will not needlessly scare seniors and political action committees. We need to find a voice that will not lend itself to demagoguery and the protection of a rapidly deteriorating status quo. We need to find a voice that will make the courageous and potentially unpopular decisions now to preserve the future of this nation...

Author: By William D. Zerhouni, | Title: COLUMN RIGHT | 1/31/1996 | See Source »

...Their tactics have been to talk tough to try to scare people, but I don't think this is going to have any affect on the strike," he said. "This just shows a lot of what's wrong here and why people want a union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Draws Line in Sand for TAs | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...party opposes privatization, but Zyuganov stops short of saying he would renationalize every industry; he does not want to scare away foreign investors. He would rebuild the shattered armed forces, and perhaps most ambitiously, he wants to re-create the Soviet Union or "a great Rus-sian state" of its former republics. Of course, he says, this must be done peacefully, in a "consistent, step-by-step voluntary way, on the basis of elections, referendums and international treaties." Meanwhile, he says, the West must not expand nato by taking in former Warsaw Pact members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW DARK A RED IS HE? | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...Newt hitchhiking. Newt's first love, a girl named Jeannette, had just broken up with him, and he wanted to go plead with her to take him back. Furious, Gingrich's father grabbed him by the shoulders and hung him up on a wall hook. "Don't you ever scare your mother like that again!" he raged. Gingrich got the message: It's pretty hard to be aggressive with your feet a few inches off the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT GINGRICH; MASTER OF THE HOUSE | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

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