Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson had to endure a scare before recording the win. Minutes into the third period, Dartmouth defender Nate Dudley drilled a slapshot at Roy. The sophomore netminder got a stick on the bullet, but the puck dribbled over the line to cut Harvard's lead to two goals...
HOWEVER, what was most immediately repugnant about the COCA memo I received last week was the attitude it conveyed and, more particularly, the scare tactics it employed to conjure up images of another Vietnam War. Yet these scare tactics seemed woefully misguided--after all, Vietnam was a time when thousands of elitist students burned their draft cards and graciously let the poor and minorities do the fighting for them...
...Government may have been right to take this terrible RICO blunderbuss and use it to scare the living daylights out of Wall Street, because Wall Street's level of greed and immorality in the '80s had reached a cyclical peak...
...even from the clean-TV crusaders, who would probably be appalled by the prolific (though rarely graphic) violence. Which is just fine, since it allows the rest of us to enjoy some B-movie pleasures: comic-book energy, throw-logic-to-the-wi nds imagination and, occasionally, a good scare...
...inherent fault with such scare tactics, says David C. Evans, Georgia's commissioner of corrections, is expecting too much from them. Says he: "Too many middle-class whites see it as the answer, a panacea." But with minimal counseling or after-shock guidance, the boot-camp experience "is just a car wash for criminals who are supposed to be cleansed for life," says Pat Gilliard, executive director of the Clearinghouse on Georgia Prisons and Jails. Edward J. Loughran, commissioner of the department of youth services in Massachusetts, dismisses the whole idea of shock therapy because "you cannot undo...