Word: scaring
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...stake in Slavneft. "If Sechin can pull it off, and if he sorts it out with BP," Delyagin says, "it will spell a decisive victory for Putin. The key point is taking oil under informal but tight Kremlin control, rather than launching a formally state-owned concern," which would scare off foreign investors. The new board chairman of Rosneft, who avoids publicity and contact with outsiders, is a key member of the Siloviki (hard men) - Putin's coterie of top security, law-enforcement and military brass, who many say are becoming Russia's new oligarchs...
...Hate and love are the wrong words to describe how Americans feel about the President. I am not emotional about the man Bush. It is the Bush Administration and its unilateralism that scare me. How can the U.S. pretend to promote democracy in the world when it is such a poor team player in the U.N., the only global democratic body we have? Barbara M. Tull Delaware...
...what may be an even more dangerous development for the President, the announcement of new terrorism alerts so soon after the Democratic Convention invited suspicion that the Administration was cranking up fears to scare voters into sticking with the leader they know. In the TIME poll a surprisingly large 40% of those asked said they believed the Administration was not above using a terrorism alert for political reasons. That sentiment also came through in interviews with likely voters around the country. "I've gotten so I don't believe the Administration [when it puts] out information," said Richard Rasmussen...
...public square. Scream journalism--Crossfire, Hannity and Colmes, the various "gangs" and "groups" of Washington blabocrats assaulting our senses--was always nauseating, but it was more understandable in a world where the most important issue was the definition of the word is. It was the only way to scare up an audience in those days. But this is a different world now. And we are being forced to examine the most serious, complicated sorts of issues--war and solvency--through an anachronistic, irresponsible political-media lens created for more trivial times. So I guess I'm one of Lehrer...
...week gave an unusually bullish official estimate of its opening share price: $108 to $135 a share, or more than 150 times annual per-share profit. (Most large companies average about one-seventh of that.) Google watchers were split on the reason. Either Page and Brin are trying to scare away those in search of a one-day profit--by snapping up shares in the IPO at a low price and selling them as soon as the price jumps--or they want the company to be valued as highly as longtime rival Yahoo (which currently beats Google in total profits...