But he accused the Conservatives of "playing politics" and scaring people with "meaningless" statistics about Britain's energy supplies.

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Alfred Kahn, one of Jimmy Carter's economic advisers, was once rebuked by the president for scaring people by talking of looming recession.

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But as the computing world shifts from PCs to mobile devices, Lookout has been able to trounce multibillion-dollar security giants like McAfee and Symantec without scaring people.

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Godzilla is really scaring people.

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You can, for example, stick a tape in the thing and walk around, annoying old people and scaring cats.

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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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Apparently this is scaring off at least some potential applicants: the number of people taking the Law School Admissions Test declined by 9.6% during the 2010-2011 academic year, to 155, 050, from 171, 500 in the previous year, according to the Law School Admission Council.

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