Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Batman movie. Director Tim Burton has chosen to make a deadly solemn film about a superhero whose mental state is just this side of psychotic. This Batman does not battle crime out of any sense of moral righteousness. He does it because he is obsessed. He likes to scare the hell out of crooks by dangling them off the edge of skyscrapers. He enjoys slinking around in the dark, vanishing and reappearing without warning in the thick mist that envelops Gotham...
...week wore on, it appeared that whatever power Deng and his colleagues held came from the guns of the P.L.A. Intelligence specialists believe the army has played a role not only in securing the capital but also in preparing for further repression. One possible goal: to scare off prying foreigners...
...some are drawn back to high-risk behaviors such as unprotected sex or needle sharing, which exposed them to the virus in the first place. Investigators in New York City have found that nearly a third of the intravenous drug users who stopped sharing needles because of the AIDS scare later started again. A study of gay men in Chicago has shown that a quarter of those who had begun to practice safe sex occasionally reverted to unprotected sex. Officials in San Francisco are concerned that these behavioral relapses may soon trigger another increase in new infections...
...Sprints when we all were nervous about being number one and having every other crew out to beat us, Liz and J.T. [Captain Juliet Thompson] said, 'Why don't you two walk around together and scare people, let them know that this is what they'll have to row against?'" Betsy says. "The intimidation works, and it's cool...
...image he shrewdly manages to preserve at the expense of the reputations of his underlings. When labor law scholar Bok tries to bust a union, he sits quietly in his office, while Associate Vice President for Human Resources Ann Taylor is sent to the front lines to use scare tactics and talk worse-case scenarios...