Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They intimidate customers and scare away foot traffic," said an employee at another store, who wished to remain unidentified. "When you see what they say, then you will see why we're reluctant to give our names...
...sign is really not very professional" and is more of a scare tactic than a legitimate offer to rent, the manager said...
That's what's good about Ruben. He doesn't mess around with nuance. He sticks to the psychological basics and the most primitive scare tactics. Nothing distracts him from arriving, via the shortest possible distance, at some not exactly subtle but inescapably gripping point. It ain't art. Nobody's ever going to call him the new Hitchcock. But there's something admirable in his disdain for high, fancy stepping, his heedlessly efficient drive to put us in touch with the primal ooze of our worst imaginings...
Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld raised his 1996 presidential stock by proposing to cut state taxes as relief from the Clinton tax increases. And Ted Kennedy strengthened his often-tenuous hold on his job by raising enough money to scare Weld out of running for Senate next year...
...warning, aimed at cautioning people about bombs, had the effect of promoting a series of bomb scares. The most noteworthy such scare was at the house of Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, who, forced to evacuate his house, went out to supper in his bedroom slippers as the Boston bomb squad investigated a package that had arrived at his house...