Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Young's tally certainly did not lock up thegame for the Crimson. Princeton, which gaveHarvard a scare at Bright Center last Novemberbefore falling 4-3, in overtime, had its offensein full gear in the closing minutes of the finalperiod...
...popular nonmathematical account that will be published in April. "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales," says Hawking. "In the end, however, I did put in Einstein's famous equation E = m c squared. I hope that this will not scare off half my potential readers...
...chairs and artfully placed mirrors, rich oranges and reds glow on every side. The black border motif on the rugs and walls summons up visions of black flames. Bright pink branches thrust upward from behind small neo-Martian chairs, and the sconces are big burnished theater masks, enough to scare a timid millionairess right out of her chiffon...
...workers disagree. "The administration tried to scare people and make them nervous. They say to the workers: `We're one big happy family. Let's give it some time.' They make the union look like outsiders," says Joan Bailey, a United Auto Workers organizer who helped establish the B.U. union when she was a worker there...
...sexual abuse. During their daily 5 1/2 hours, students do regular schoolwork and take part in a much praised program developed by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the state's public health commissioner, that tries to teach them how to discharge anger without resorting to violence. The school also uses scare-tactic "field trips." At Boston's Charles Street jail, for instance, students talk to inmates about prison life and learn that offenders as young as 14 can be tried as adults in Massachusetts. Explains Tucker: "It's a way of letting these kids know that the customary smack...