Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shouldn't try to scare folks like that," piously chided a Republicans commercial in response. It went onto explain that President Reagan would keep his promise never to cut Social Security...
Harvard gave Brown a scare late in their first-round match, closing a six-goal gap to 11-8 in the fourth quarter. But the Bruin defense, following the pattern of previous games, shut down the Crimson in the final minutes, as Brown pulled away to a 14-8 decision...
...point in having American Secretaries of Defense running over there all the time, putting on their hard hats and huffing and puffing. [Former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown visited China in 1980, and Caspar Weinberger wants to go.] For one thing, that kind of display doesn't scare the Russians; it just makes them more conspiratorial. The Russians know the Chinese are light-years behind them militarily, and the U.S. couldn't do much to change that even if it wanted...
Analysts estimate that the scare will boost packaging sales by $1 billion during the next twelve months. Americans now spend about $52 billion a year on containers for every thing from toothpicks to turbines, but only about $15 billion of that goes for the cans, bottles, boxes and other consumer-goods packages that are ready targets for tampering...
Gabler, she finds her own existence claustrophobic and the society around her contemptible. "I like to lose control," she announces enigmatically. She can fire off a pistol in a drawing room to scare the wits out of people, and in the course of Plenty, she loses...