By now, the cold fear of the financial crisis has receded, even if its effects linger.

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Even today, over six decades later, just hearing that long wail of the warning siren on old newsreels and films gives me that same cold knot of fear in the pit of my stomach which I always felt all those years ago.

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This intimate story, bringing together the northern light reflected off water, the cold wind, the fear of poverty, the weight of the past, and the lack of a future, has a soulful, epic grandeur.

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What is the best way to get over the fear and procrastination of making cold calls?

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Constant negativity has a tendency to create fear in the minds of consumers and cold cause them to restrain spending.

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The reason for the moves is increased TV revenue and the fear of being left out in the cold in the wake of other expansion.

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It is not only the violence that people fear, but the combined threat of hunger, cold and illness.

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In truth, the other thing pushing parents to send kids to preschool is the cold reality that kindergarten has become the new first grade, with parents pushing academic learning earlier with the fear that their kids will fall behind if they don't meet major milestones like reading well before what is considered normal.

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"The fear of nuclear war has diminished partly because the risk has receded significantly with the end of the Cold War, " says Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute.

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