"It terrified the daylights out of me, but I had a great time doing it, " Theofanidis says.

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"Alan Hevesi, the comptroller of the City of New York, scared the daylights out of them, " he says.

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Shouldn't America have at least one officer of cabinet rank who scares the daylights out of these people?

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But the scriptwriters' attempts to tone down the comedy, made Dalton's Bond in The Living Daylights and A Licence To Kill, a dark, vulnerable, humourless man.

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This stat should scare the daylights out of every CMO who is generating leads and sending them to sales reps, and every CEO who approves the budget.

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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.

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As Kaspersky found out, it wasn't just scamware, but a trojan: the title would swipe the contacts after asking permission, send them to a remote server behind the scenes and text spam the daylights out of any phone number in that list.

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