Word: scaring
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...battle over the milk of Maine about free speech? Or is it about dairies using scare tactics to sell more product? "Oakhurst's marketing campaign is based more on fear than on facts," says Monsanto's Armstrong. Consumer groups say if farmers can't label their milk as coming from cows free of artificial hormones, it could set a precedent for challenging such popular labels as "MSG-free," "no artificial flavors," "free-range" and "GM-free." Maine attorney general Steven Rowe plans to ask Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts to help him fight Monsanto when the suit goes to trial...
Hate and love are the wrong words to describe how Americans feel about the President. I am not emotional about the man George W. Bush. It is the Bush Administration and the unilateralism of its policies that scare me. How can the U.S. pretend to promote democracy around 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, Ohio...
...Rohrabacher's solution is "a really bad idea," complains A.H.A. executive vice president Richard Pollack. "The mission of hospitals is to take care of people, not to patrol borders." Under current law, doctors and nurses would not violate patient confidentiality by reporting illegal aliens. But such a policy would scare off those patients, says Pollack, and that could have "devastating public-health implications." If a disease such as SARS or AIDS were to go "untreated in any individual, regardless of immigration status, that can affect everybody." The bill could also alienate Hispanic Americans, a group Republicans will be courting...
...country ... no matter how it tries to scare or block us, can stop [us] from holding the referendum." Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan's President, rebuffing U.S. President George W. Bush's opposition to a possible plebiscite in Taiwan...
...That’s really a limiting vision of the world,” Sachs said. “That should scare the wits...