Word: scares
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...says Robert New, the school-board chairman. "We have board members now saying that if a program is controversial, then maybe we should take it out." Yet Charleston's school board does not include a single Christian conservative. Mere fear of the religious right is enough these days to scare school boards into submission...
...They intimidate customers and scare away foot traffic," said an employee at another store, who wished to remain unidentified. "When you see what they say, then you will see why we're reluctant to give our names...
Some Central Square businesspeople hope that weather or retaliatory action will scare the group away...
...sign is really not very professional" and is more of a scare tactic than a legitimate offer to rent, the manager said...
That's what's good about Ruben. He doesn't mess around with nuance. He sticks to the psychological basics and the most primitive scare tactics. Nothing distracts him from arriving, via the shortest possible distance, at some not exactly subtle but inescapably gripping point. It ain't art. Nobody's ever going to call him the new Hitchcock. But there's something admirable in his disdain for high, fancy stepping, his heedlessly efficient drive to put us in touch with the primal ooze of our worst imaginings...