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U.S. PIRG has again attempted to scare the public regarding particle matter pollution.

Working in a prison, is, to my mind, similar in ways to working in a coal mine. It's going to scare away a lot of people.

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot...

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'

I don't want to scare anybody here but we just received word from police that Howard Dean is loose and may be armed with a microphone.

The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want [...] Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we're terrified, and we share that fear, we help.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

This was a screwball idea, ... An underhanded and sneaky attempt to scare people. We have credible safety-based arguments supporting our position against importation. We don't have to resort to pulp fiction and Looney Tunes.

The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.

Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.

We've seen investment in capacity go up quite a bit and we had a scare this summer with wireless. So you can make a case that the business is in trouble. We try to focus on slightly longer-term fundamentals. The relationship between spending and revenue in this business is still reasonable. Visibility is still good. Pricing is good. Let's not forget, wireless handset demand is growing 50 percent over year-on-year. So with stocks down a bit and the fundamentals still solid, we though it was time to declare the mid-cycle correction over.

We have had a lot of positive feedback from visiting groups and we are getting around 30 visits a year. The children particularly enjoy the trailer ride back for lunch in the purpose-built barn. We have to ensure, however, that we do not have too many tours of the farm, as we could scare off the wildlife we have worked hard to encourage onto the land.

The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.

Britney: My love doesn't scare me. Other people's love scares me.

But you have to look at your work with an honest critical eye. Work on the things that you need work on. Scare yourself. Surprise yourself. If you don't like the way it's going, you have complete control over changing the course. That's one of the best things about doing this.

If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

We recommend parents come with their kids because some of videos are graphic. We are not trying to scare the youngsters, we just want them to be more educated so they can make better choices.

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

Lucent was our scare today. It shows that the market is very skittish and vulnerable to any perceptions of bad news.

Let's face it, I could have killed myself, and my family, my mother who means so much to me, would have spent the rest of her life mourning me. Or worse yet, I could have killed some innocent people and their families would have then suffered a great loss. Lay awake at night and think about that for a while. If that doesn't scare you, then something's wrong with you.

Many people may be expecting a walking-talking clone of Arnold but I believe I've done my homework to the extent that the difference between us will be obvious. I'm playing a machine without emotion, but there's an intensity I'm really working hard at hitting that I hope will come through to the audience and scare the crap out of them.

Seniors can be vulnerable to deceptive sales practices in the financial services arena. Sometimes, seniors are specifically targeted by bad actors who try to use scare tactics to sell fraudulent or inappropriate financial products.

Some might even say that the attacks on the terrorist facilities should scare Saddam, should show him what's in the offing for him if he persists in his role.

One sack doesn't scare me. The sacks will come.

My dad doesn't scare easily, so I sincerely doubt that he's going to stay away any longer than he has to.

My date was really good-natured about it and happily answered all of my dad's questions. I couldn't believe my dad would do that to me! Apparently it didn't scare my date too badly because he asked me out again!

Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.

Rice is a good basketball team. Offensively they scare you because Almond had scored (30-plus points) in their last four games. That especially concerns you when our strength is not scoring points.

Police, exercising sensitivity and care, first fired shots in the air to scare him and prevent a graver incident, but despite this he ran toward a crowded area. He was shot and lost his life,

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.

I work on the floor with them. Lab coats scare them, so for the animals, it's better to wear regular clothes.

I have great fans that come up to me, and they just want me to sign stuff. I have a restaurant in Beverly Hills - Prego - and they come in all the time asking for me to see when I'm going to show up. That doesn't really scare me.

I don't ever remember seeing that many cops in a courtroom. When I came in and saw all the security, I thought they might have had a bomb scare or something like that.

I don't feel that other boy meant for it to happen. I'm not happy with the fact he brought the gun over and they decided to pull a scare routine.

I don't know why people think this game is going to scare us.

If Bush wins, the price control scare hanging over managed care companies and drug makers would be lifted.

If only the net was just a little wider. We should have won that game. Our kids fought hard, and we overcame a short bench to put a scare into them.

Getting to play those types of team is what makes Division I so exciting. I really like the environment we played in last year. I'm excited. They've got really good fans, so you know you're going to a good crowd. That's good old basketball right there. We gave them quite a scare last year.

If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there's a lot of hitting and slapping and jumping at each other trying to scare each other. But underneath it all it is a family, so we all love each other.

From the moment you say 'action,' this is the fun part - things should happen that surprise you, excite you, scare you, turn you on, make you laugh. If things aren't surprising you, when you say 'cut,' whisper things to the actors that will make them do things that do surprise you.

If the government wants to put an end to these types of transactions, the proper response is for Congress to change the law, not to scare professionals away with indictments. It is a misuse of prosecutorial discretion to use criminal prosecutions to change accepted and legitimate standards of conduct.

The purpose, she said, was only to scare her ex-husband. The defendant was the driver of the car and she waited outside.

We're in the heads of the other teams. We're coming in here like a freight train, and we scare the crap out of everybody.

We've given them enough of a scare the last few days, a preview of things to come when demand is not strong,

Today, a day of mourning, a new disaster hit us, ... Terrorism has declared war on us ... Terrorists are trying to scare the Russian people. They are trying to demoralize the state.

Having the opportunity to birdie the last three holes like I did today was good. And maybe a couple of fortunate times, like 18, a little scare on the 3-wood (drive), it ended up being way up the fairway and only a 6-iron in. It was fortunate and the nature of the game.

Having that guy in the lineup makes a difference. He's going to scare some people. I was definitely surprised by the double. He missed so much time and on his first at-bat ? boom! He's a special player.

For me personally it is a vindication. ... I said this $13 million was meant to scare voters into approving the referendum. There was no cash-flow crisis.

His voting record until 1997 is one of supporting the repository, and he voted to make Nevada the sole repository site for waste. Nevadans deserve more than efforts to scare and mislead them.

I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!

There are some who say it's the pest of the 21st century. I don't want to scare anybody, but it could become a much bigger issue.

Kids, did the car scare you, huh? We're all scared of the car tax,

I think the European finance ministers had an opportunity on Monday to scare off bullish euro investors by threatening intervention or rate cuts to undo euro strength. They missed that opportunity.

I think the biggest thing to scare Hong Kong was the devaluation of Taiwan. This is a country with substantial foreign exchange reserves. That's what sparked the fall in Hong Kong.

I think the biggest thing to scare Hong Kong was the devaluation in Taiwan,

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

It happened in the '50s with the Red Scare and the space race and all of that. And there usually is a correlation between those two. . . . You're telling allegorical tales and you're shining a light back on society, what's happening now, and it's a way to kind of talk about what's going on, but from a sideways angle.

I think this is scare politics. The business community had no problem with this.

I think they're trying to bother me and that must mean we scare them in some way. I think they're trying little things like that to get us out of our game. When they try to push things to the limit, I think we have to take that as a compliment.

I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.

Last time I checked the roster, Bill Walton wasn't playing. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wasn't playing. Reggie Miller wasn't playing. We can't let that scare us.

I said going into the ballgame that I thought there was a little bit of an advantage in having a senior quarterback. He gave me a scare .. and I told him to never do it again.

I said the thing... the only thing that would scare me in a campaign or running the country is that debate that you'd have to do during the campaign.

Over the medium term, it's still looking positive for Indonesia and the currency. They're going to be cautious not to scare off investors.

Our code black is for severe weather. We do not have a bomb scare code.

Pitchers scare me to begin with. I don't know how much work pitchers have done.

My neighborhood was like 'The Wonder Years.' We played until 10 o'clock at night. We used to tell scary stories. I was the one scaring them. We used to play football by this place called the Myer's House. It was a big, spooky house with the gables; we'd hang out there and scare each other.

I think Delphi had a business plan to go bankrupt, but it got out of hand and went faster than they wanted, and it's become very messy. Also, Miller was very cocky. He was very antagonistic, and thought he was going to roll over the UAW. And the UAW International probably hoped that we would scare us bad enough so that we would roll over for concessions. Instead, the UAW rank-and-file response has been outrage and a willingness to fight back.

It doesn't scare us. While there may be a subsidy needed to jump-start it, the new owner will need to help build a stadium, no doubt about it.

I think he is probably using that as a scare tactic to try to make the workers bow to him or something,

I thought it was a joke, I pretended to go along with it, just to scare Chicago. Then my agent said, 'Bobby, these guys are serious.'

Just because I got injured doesn't mean that my confidence level is going to go down, ... The same thing happened to me against Seattle, and I came back and had one of my best games against Buffalo. Injury doesn't scare me.

I'm still smiling, it was an amazing game. We kind of got a little bit of a scare there at the end, it was as excited as I've ever been on the field.

I might be scaring him. Maybe it's my fault to go there and air him out. I might take the blame because all of a sudden I went out to air him out and said not good stuff to him. I might surprise him and scare him and all of a sudden he loses what he has. It's maybe my fault to do what I did.

I was really excited all week, because I knew I was going to throw a bullpen today. When I woke up today, I was really excited. I went through my 30 pitches and each one was perfect. I didn't feel anything to scare me. It was beautiful.

I wasn't trying to scare them - just provide a reality check.

I would like to make it clear why we're doing this fiscal responsiveness to the needs of the city is top priority. Now is the time for this initiative because many previous supporters admit they were confused by the $300,000 campaign, including scare tactics. Most everyone was critical of the non-secret vote, the sunset clause was hypocritical, the tax is unfair and unnecessary, and this is the only way to attain some fiscal responsibility.

Microsoft's entry into any technology arena ought to seriously scare competitors in that space. Companies heavily invested in the Microsoft Exchange environment will see this as a viable alternative for wireless email. We would too.

We're a great shooting team. Our guards can scare teams. And in the post, our two big men do the dirty work and can score. Teams better watch out.

We believe this has been a scare tactic to create attention,

use scare tactics on the players. You have to realize that any one player, and there are a large number of unhappy players, can file an action in court or with an agency which will put everything into the public eye.

We have always expected the business community to raise a ton of money and do what they can to defeat this measure. It doesn't scare us in the least. We're very focused.

We are not trying to scare people but they need to be aware.

The push-up (in oil) was enough to scare some people with geopolitical unrest overseas, but it's a long day. Sixty-two dollars a barrel is probably the level where you start to see some effects on equities.

Those are things that scare us, but hopefully those things turn out well. You hope it's nothing major, but you never know.

We were invaded by police, border police, riot squads, horses. This is a provocation. It's a show of strength. They've entered private property illegally, and we're very upset that the government is using these kind of tactics to try to scare people.

We're not trying to scare anybody. We're not trying to fool anybody. That's just the way this show is done.

Yeah, in our case, beating a Nebraska does scare people off, especially if you try to get someone to come to your place. Teams count wins. And normally when you play at home you look for your W's. And schools aren't going to go on the road and risk getting beat.

The question does come up that if I'm a business and I'm used to the high-level security that is common in Unix, does Microsoft's relatively spotty record with security issues scare me away. And is that going to create some kind glass ceiling above which Microsoft cannot proceed?

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.

If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.

She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him." "Why?" "Because I wanted to be with you.

The fact that this community wide be impacted by their mail processing being moved to Sioux Falls, I wouldn't characterize as a scare tactic.