Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...milk buyers would be well advised to ignore that scare tactic. Unless BST is shown to pose a health hazard to cows or humans, the main question will be one of economics and politics: Should the financial interests of dairy farmers be put above the right of consumers to have lower milk prices...
Election fraud is cause for condemnation and potential military action in Panama, but is ignored in countries which, for our own strategic interests, continue to enjoy our military aid. In Uruguay, for example, government threats scare voters from approving investigations of human rights abuses under the military regime of the 1970s; in El Salvador, soldiers drive peasant voters to the polls at gunpoint...
...only a fraction of the casualties. Up to 2,000 otters may have perished. More than 33,000 birds may have died in Prince William Sound alone. To save the 6.5 million sandpipers and 10 million other shorebirds starting to migrate through the region, wildlife experts are trying to scare them away from their favorite stopping-off sites. The naturalists have set up big- barreled propane-powered cannons that are timed to go off noisily at regular intervals. They even erected 37 scarecrows dressed in Salvation Army clothing...
...latest Blankie scare was just last September. I arrived safely at school, but my trusty fabric companion was inadvertantly left at home. (Note the passive voice.) "Mom!" I begged on the phone that night. "Send Blankie fast...
COVER: Was the fruit ban panic or prudence? How safe is our food and water? Two tainted grapes and a scare over apples lead to the destruction of tons of fruit. Are Americans overly sensitive to risk, or are there justifiable fears about what we eat and drink? -- Why Bush approved a ban on imported semiautomatic weapons. -- Did Reagan lie about, or merely forget, his efforts for the contras? -- A custody dispute over fertilized eggs...