Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to scare you," said Karin Saunders, a prison official, "but do pay attention to what's going on around you at all times...
...Size doesn't scare me," says Dean Treptow, president of Brown Deer Bank ($55 million) in Brown Deer, Wis. "We should be able to adapt more quickly to changes than the big boys can." Some regional banks are trying to fight off possible takeovers by large institutions by merging with other banks. The goal is to become so large that firms like Citicorp cannot easily swallow them up. Mergers also reduce overhead costs by combining such expensive operations as data processing and advertising...
...Beissinger said that Romanov was the most likely choice because he is the most "staid and conservative" of the three possible presidents. Chemenko, at 72, is too old and would constitute "another caretaker government," while Gorbachev at 52, is "too young and would scare conservatives," he said...
...parlayed two World War II military planes (cost: $50,000) into a hugely lucrative charter line in the 1950s. In 1979 he offered one-way, cross-country tickets for $99.99, but major-airline competition, a strike, high fuel costs and a grounded fleet of DC-10s during a safety scare nearly plucked World...
Before the plan got very far, Volcker torpedoed it. He pointed to the key role that the Federal Reserve has played in dealing with such crises as the Hunt brothers' silver scare in 1980 and the continuing foreign-loan problems of developing nations. Stripping the Reserve Board of its regulatory powers, Volcker contended, would cripple the agency. Said the chairman: "It would indeed be dangerous to look to the Federal Reserve to pick up the pieces in a financial crisis without also providing it with the tools...