Word: scaring
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...separate tracks are carefully interwoven: U.S. officials tell TIME that their immediate plan is to scare bin Laden and his aides out of hiding; gather as much intelligence as possible about their whereabouts; deploy commandos in and around Afghanistan to strike quickly if bin Laden can be found; and reassure Muslim leaders constantly that American war aims are limited. And as the President said Saturday, "Full warning has been given, and time is running...
...counts in this category the 1992-94 mission by U.S. troops to mostly Muslim Somalia as part of a U.N. effort to assist a famine-starved population caught between battling warlords. In bin Laden's book, the troop landing was simply a show of force by the U.S. "to scare the Muslim world, saying that it is able to do whatever it desires." He asked, "How can we believe your claims that you came to save our children in Somalia while you kill our children in all those [other] places?"--meaning Iraq, Bosnia and, through the Israelis, Lebanon...
...public response to the ongoing anthrax scare is surprisingly calm, if not wholly logical. While just under one half of Americans are concerned that they or a member of their family will be exposed to anthrax, only 15 percent characterize themselves as "very concerned," and another 32 percent consider themselves "somewhat concerned." A full 52 percent are "not concerned" about anthrax becoming a personal threat. That said, 63 percent say their local officials are unprepared to prevent a terrorist attack involving anthrax...
...Though some suggested that the anthrax scare of last week in fact constituted the second wave of attacks that authorities had been expecting, most investigators doubted it. Round 2, they fear, is yet to come. "My opinion, shaped on years of experience, is that it's coming," says an Administration counterterrorism official. The CIA actually quantifies such probabilities, the official says. The agency tabulates what it calls "Indications and Warnings" (I+Ws, in government-speak), and when the I+Ws reach a certain number, the alarms sound. That's what happened prior to the FBI's public warning last week...
...whopping 90 million, the A’s took the Evil Empire to a final Game Five in last year’s Divisional Playoffs. The Yankees, of course, eked out a 7-5 victory and went on to win the World Series. However, Oakland put a scare into the World Champs, showing the world that David wasn’t too far away from defeating Goliath...