Word: scaring
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Last year, the much-maligned Crimson went 4-23, but surprised Yale and gave Princeton a scare at the end of the season. The Harvard team roster, one of the nation’s youngest and least experienced, did not feature a single senior...
...three debates, polls show little change amongst the undecided—preying on American fears is deplorable. The adversarial atmosphere of this election race has been apparent from its beginning; but these advertisements cross the line of appropriate ways of persuasion. There is simply no merit in trying to scare the American public into voting for either presidential contender...
...STOCK MARKET IS A CONTEST BETWEEN GREED AND fear, elections are a contest between hope and fear. This year fear is winning. We have gone way beyond the traditional red scare or Medi-scare deployments. The Kerry campaign warns darkly that the President has secret plans to do all kinds of nefarious things upon re-election: reinstate the draft, privatize Social Security and, brace yourself, lower dairy prices--the prospect of which in Wisconsin, where Kerry made the charge last month, can make a grown man cry. Of course, the biggest "fear" scandal of the campaign thus far (the night...
This elicited a Mount St. Helens protest from Democrats. "It is completely inappropriate and dangerous," said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, "for the Vice President to in effect threaten the American people, to be part of instilling fear into our country." John Edwards declared that "Dick Cheney's scare tactics crossed the line" because "protecting America from vicious terrorists" is not a partisan issue...
...over. It's not the economy, stupid. It's Hiroshima--on American soil. If that doesn't scare you, it should. We could use more fear in this election, not less. Cheney should be commended for his candor. Kennedy...