Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Economy & Business A.H. Robins files for bankruptcy after a barrage of Dalkon Shield suits. AT&T will cut out 24,000 jobs. A tainted-tomato scare...
...allowing players to divide up the millions of dollars from television revenues, to allow salary arbitration, and even worse, some rebels talked of allowing free agency. If that ever happened, the owners' counterparts over in football-land would have had themselves a pretty good chuckle (and a pretty good scare.) Luckily, people like Catfish Hunter and Reggie Jackson realized that they should act in the best interest of baseball to prevent the sport from becoming controlled by money...
This is not to insult people at large or to suggest that Harvard or the world is a bad place. But sometimes I want to know why people try to scare each other so much. What are we all scared of? What are we trying...
Severe price hikes scare the Chinese, who recall the hyperinflation of the late 1940s, when in three years Shanghai wholesale prices rose 7 1/2 million times. That disaster helped bring the Communists to power. To stop shopkeepers from using the government plan as an excuse for additional increases, 11,000 inspectors will tour Peking in search of price gouging...
...mentioned that Trillin is a columnist. He is not particularly well-known, however, because he writes his satirical columns for The Nation, the far-left weekly magazine (a "pinko rag" the author calls it, perhaps covering himself as a patriotic infiltrator for the next Red Scare) that hides in the rear racks at Out-of-Town News and has a circulation which competes neck and neck with The Crimson's. Thus the great virtue, of this predictably superb sampling of his column, Uncivil Liberties: you actually get to read the pieces, rather than hear about them second-hand from...