Here was a woman with scruples less developed than her own, someone who had chosen to be not frightened but entertained by her new neighborhood, someone who soldiered on with her elective surgery even when her best friend got a diagnosis of cancer.

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Whoever they choose has to be willing to be shocked, frightened and disturbed by what they see.

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While nearly all the youngsters at the screening I attended enjoyed this movie, two tiny tykes became very frightened by the bad toys and had to be taken out of the theater.

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Instead, Mr. Henen often hustles out to remote parts of the Mojave Desert to make sure the threatened desert tortoise, which can weigh 10 pounds and live to be more than 50 years old, isn't frightened by charging troops.

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And its Slav majority is frightened that the country's delicate ethnic balance could be upset by the arrival of too many Kosovars.

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The Fed needs to be able to add to bank reserves without scaring the bejeezus out of people who have been frightened by the QE2 bogey man.

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When we get frightened by something, we tend not to make very good decisions, we tend not to be very clear in the way that we think.

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His sharpness and arrogance fell away, and he was revealed as a man shaken to his core by cancer--someone who has learned what it's like to be vulnerable and frightened, someone who now regrets his oft-displayed lack of sympathy for the vulnerable and frightened in the poorest precincts of his city.

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