Word: scaring
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...farmer I found it interesting that you would attempt to scare the American consumer into believing that making our own fuel out of corn--ethanol--will drive up the price of other products [June 25]. For example, a box of cornflakes contains only a few cents' worth of corn. I would hope that we would all be comfortable spending a few extra cents on a $4 box of cereal. What a small price to pay to help in our quest for energy independence...
...photographic (enabling him to recall virtually every shot from every film he's seen) and phonographic. On one indelible occasion at the 2002 Floating Film Festival, he and cinematographer Haskell Wexler sang Woody Guthrie's "The Union Maid" - and Roger performed not just the chorus ("Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union, / I'm sticking to the union 'til the day I die") but every verse. Roger had picked it off a Pete Seeger record he heard when he was younger and repeated it decades later, word-perfect...
...scare reminded us, that's important in a world in which superbugs can quickly go global. Bacteria may be resourceful things, but science, while slower, can be smarter. It's just a matter of knowing your enemy--and packing the right weapons. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy or pdf.] USING A VIRUS TO ATTACK BACTERIA 1 A bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria but not human cells...
...mail, “It seemed as though the Social Studies department was emphasizing the need for new concentrators to come in with a set focus in mind. To those who are weighing their options between the social sciences, this pressure feels, in part, to be a type of scare tactic used to intimidate the many potential concentrators who are not yet set in a specific track...
...threats of bioterrorism, and after the spread of HIV and SARS in recent decades, public health officials would be better prepared - and more coordinated - when it comes to dealing with nasty bugs that hitch rides from country to country in often unsuspecting plane travelers. But this latest TB scare illustrates that the system still has a long way to go to be able to deal effectively with such health crises...