Word: scaring
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Luntz Tip No. 1: Scare people. Especially about their children. Luntz's memo includes a road map to how to most effectively scare the bejeezus out of the American public when it comes to health care. Results show the phrase health care rationing frightened the most people, so Republicans are urged to sprinkle it around describing Democratic reform plans. It's also better to warn that Democrats want to put politicians in charge of health care, rather than bureaucrats: "Bureaucrats are scary - but at least they are professionals...
...first glance, one might assume that a swine flu scare would send prices up, as pigs are widely slaughtered and supply disappears. Egypt, for instance, has begun slaughtering more than 300,000 presumably healthy pigs as a precautionary measure. However, the futures market is pricing hogs as if the fall in demand will outpace the drop in supply. (Read "Swine Flu: Don't Blame...
...oceans. Peter Daszak, president of the Wildlife Trust, notes in a newly published paper in Science that the U.S. alone has imported more than 1.5 billion live animals since 2000, the majority of which undergo no testing for pathogens before or after shipment. At the height of the H1N1 scare last week, many Americans wanted stronger surveillance at the borders to prevent the spread of new diseases by foreign travelers - but there has been comparatively little attention paid to the live-wildlife trade. "There's a backdoor open just waiting for new pathogens to walk in," says Daszak...
...many Mexicans, meanwhile, concern has moved from health to the economy. The global financial crisis has already battered Mexico; now tourism, one of the nation's top three sources of income along with oil and migrant-worker remittances, stands to take a severe hit because of the epidemic scare. (See the top 5 swine...