• Every October their slickly produced horrors scare up big money, and they are not alone.

    ECONOMIST: Fear is booming

  • To scare up more business, Petersen started publishing a literary quarterly called the Rivendell Reader.

    FORBES: Easy Rider

  • It's a shame to see them pretending little has changed so they can scare up some votes.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Holder's Racial Politics

  • And so you don't scare hardworking Americans just to scare up some votes.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Hilliard, OH

  • You know the General Motors finance guys are getting imaginative when the automaker establishes its own bank to scare up cash.

    FORBES

  • The Mets have an Amway shop in their park, and could probably scare up a better outfield from among its employees than the one they'll actually be fielding.

    WSJ: The Cloud Over New York Baseball

  • Another problem: It takes a while to scare up clients.

    FORBES: Entrepreneurs

  • Paul Woods, chief executive of the algae-to-ethanol company Algenol, came to New York this week from company headquarters in Florida to try to scare up some money for a pilot plant in Freeport, Texas.

    FORBES: In Washington, Algae Is Treated Like Slime

  • Every few months some consulting firm trying to (literally) scare up some business will come out with a report about how Bluetooth or WiFi or some other thing is vulnerable to hackers and is a major security risk.

    ENGADGET: blogger-avatar

  • Fakhrai spent more than a year trying to scare up funding and was so grateful to the Murdocks that he agreed to give them a 60% stake in NovaRx, and he welcomed Justin, 35, aboard as chief executive.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The close scare served to wake up Preston, and David Healy headed just over from close in before Craig Brown's took the lead through Cresswell's header.

    BBC: Preston 1-0 Reading

  • "People need to be very responsible about these things and not to get caught up in scare stories but instead take a reasoned and logical consideration of it and do what's best for their child, " he added.

    BBC: Boy with measles

  • They worry that introducing top-up fees would scare off potential students from poor families.

    ECONOMIST: The battle-lines over university fees have been drawn

  • They know that their jobs are at risk if their hospital does not prosper: but their jobs are also at risk if they drive up costs or scare away customers.

    ECONOMIST: For-profit medicine

  • Barkley could not add the extras, and Bath survived a scare when Michael Bond rampaged up field, but a superbly executed Abendanon tackle on Takudzwa Ngwenya closed the door on the French.

    BBC: Bath 11-12 Biarritz

  • As India's high-tech sector boomed in the build-up to the Y2K scare (the computer glitch that later fizzled), Manglik began to imagine returning to India once his daughters finished college.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Britain's Lorna Woodroffe fought off an injury scare and went on to set up a second-round meeting with US start Jennifer Capriati in the DFS Women's Tennis Classic at Edgbaston in Birmingham.

    BBC: Woodroffe sets up Capriati tie

  • Brands has held up okay from the scare.

    FORBES: China's Bird Flu A Problem For Yum! Brands, Co Says

  • His injury scare prompted the Lions management to call up Wales' James Hook to provide additional goal-kicking options and cover at fly-half and inside centre.

    BBC: Halfpenny joins Lions squad in SA

  • So, unless the bears can come up with a reason to scare the heck out of us again in relatively short order, we should keep in mind that markets tend to exit a consolidation pattern heading in the same direction they were going before the consolidation pattern began.

    FORBES: So Does This Mean the Bull Market is Over?

  • Until someone comes up with the next great, cheap scare, expect lots more found footage and more Paranormal Activity.

    FORBES: The Triumph Of 'Paranormal Activity'

  • It seemed Chelsea had three points wrapped up but they had to survive a scare when Kalou conceded a penalty for tugging back Ilunga.

    BBC: West Ham 0-1 Chelsea

  • "A little snow doesn't scare me, " said Leeann Rivera, 43, stocking up at the only major grocery store still open in the Sandy-ravaged Far Rockaway section of Queens.

    WSJ: Sandy in back of Easterners' minds as snow falls

  • The problem with flops is that they scare studios away from risky films and the movie-viewing public ends up with an endless procession of sequels and films based on best-selling young adult books.

    FORBES: Flops Like 'Scott Pilgrim' Are Bad For The Movie Business

  • But he refused to give an estimate of the numbers of people who might move to Britain after getting the right to live and work in the UK in December, saying he did not want to start a "scare story" and that more work had to be done on drawing up a robust figure.

    BBC: Airport arrivals sign

  • "The internet is a great tool, it opens up all sorts of possibilities and we don't want to scare people about using it, " said Home Office Minister Hilary Benn.

    BBC: The threat of the net

  • White House aides privately hoped the new NATO assessment would call for so many troops to invade--perhaps up to 150, 000 in Kosovo alone--that it would scare off ground-war advocates.

    CNN: IT'S FLIGHT OR FIGHT

  • Here's the problem, though, is when you've got all those things fitting together it ends up being a big, complicated bill and it's very easy to scare the daylights out of people.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds a Town Hall in New Hampshire

  • Kansas got a major scare when center Carolyn Davis limped off the court, favoring her left leg, after picking up her fourth foul with 6:40 left.

    NPR: Kansas Races Past South Carolina 75-69

  • Every one of the Birmingham's starting XI were up for the battle from the first whistle, although they were given an early scare when Benjani's shot struck the post.

    BBC: Birmingham 3-1 Man City

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