Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light just as the Société de la Tour Eiffel, a private and profitable management company, made a bid to negotiate a loan for the repairs that would be guaranteed by the city of Paris. The resulting outcry in the press appalled the Société. Scare headlines like WILL THE EIFFEL TOWER DIE? were termed "excessive and exaggerated." Still, tourism is down about 10%, while visitors scanned the struts with nervous attention...
...maneuvering. Steiner and Daniel Cantor, director of personnel administration, orchestrated a campaign that included frequent meetings with Med Area workers and the distribution of 12 pamphlets questioning the motives and effectiveness of District 65. While Leslie A. Sullivan, chief organizer for District 65, characterized the University's efforts as "scare tactics," Steiner holds that the entire effort was aimed at informing, rather than indoctrinating the workers, and that Harvard at all times adhered to NLRB campaign regulations. Given the University ability to squeeze almost any tactic it wants to employ within the confines of a convoluted statute, Steiner probably...
...rush to approve the drugs has overwhelmed objections by the FDA, which, since the 1962 thalidomide scare, has been required by law to license only substances that are scientifically proved to be effective as well as safe. But the FDA can control only drugs that cross state lines; the states are free to license those that are manufactured and used within their boundaries in spite of federal disapproval. In fighting against the drugs, federal health officials have suffered from their loss of some public respect following the false swine-flu scare and the FDA'S proposed restrictions...
...what he knew and felt that he had a responsibility to speak up. "I didn't feel it was safe for my kids on the street. Did you ever watch a horror movie? You'd be sleeping, and then parts of that movie would come back and scare you? Well, this was the same way. I'd be trying to sleep, and I would see that face. I was always looking behind me, looking for a car to pull up alongside...
Stenhouse donated another ball to the right field construction site two innings later to round out the Harvard scoring at seven. Northeastern put a little scare into the five-run Harvard lead with two runs off Ron Stewart in the ninth, before Jamie Werly came on finally to get the last...