It's become the bogeyman responsible for ecological disaster, climate instability, nuclear weapons and potential designer plagues.
Incredibly, none other than Russian President Boris Yeltsin has recently trotted out this rather shopworn bogeyman.
For this and other reasons, the bogeyman of deflation is really not a concern at all.
And the administration is not above creating a handy bogeyman of its own: the insurance companies.
For Mr Putin, in times of discomfort, America makes a convenient bogeyman and punch bag.
Back in the sunlit salon, our 110 minutes with Europe's chief bogeyman were coming to an end.
But in the U.S., at least for one group of lawmakers, it still represents the Chinese cyber-bogeyman.
Beyond that, there is the fact that Israel - like the US - is the regime's bogeyman.
In just the last week, the abbreviation APT1 has come to represent the bogeyman of digital espionage nightmares.
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To them, the internationally connected, ferociously active Islamist fringe group described by officials is largely an imaginary bogeyman.
AK's secular predecessors, seem ready to believe in the Islamist bogeyman this time.
He has made himself a cartoonish bogeyman, the Darth Vader of politics, without Democrats having to say one disparaging word.
If they choose the wrong one, they learn that "the bogeyman" caught them, and are reminded of the rule they broke.
For those too young to recall the big-city crime wave of the sixties and seventies, it may seem like mere bogeyman history.
As a result, it has become a bogeyman for Europe's radical left.
Instead, Washington is finding a new bogeyman for a post-Iraq, post-Afghanistan world.
Since as the Jewish state Israel is the regional bogeyman, no Arab state will agree to form a permanent alliance with it.
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Opportunistic politicians and radical environmental activists have set their sights on our clean, abundant, affordable supply of natural gas as their new bogeyman du jour.
Russia, once the international bogeyman of direct foreign investment into the energy sector, is enjoying a revival as oil prices entrench in the triple digits.
The bogeyman, as so often for Canadians, is the United States.
Concluding that communism, for long the great bogeyman of South African politics, no longer posed a threat, the country's whites-only regime released Nelson Mandela from prison.
Yet in a contest to see which can be more racist, one would be safer to bet on Europe than on the traditional bogeyman, the United States.
Because Israel is everyone's convenient bogeyman, it cannot form permanent alliances with any of its neighbors and as a consequence, it cannot gang up against another state.
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Mr Brown will remind voters of the suspicious share deals Ms Whitman enjoyed when she was on the board of Goldman Sachs, currently America's favourite Wall Street bogeyman.
Then Gunness shifted the blame to UNRWA's favorite bogeyman: Israel.
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At the same time, it has become the bogeyman for privacy advocates concerned about the ways advertisers are gathering data on us and inducing us to buy more stuff.
They use him as their bogeyman, their symbol of what they oppose, and, at the same time, he's had an intensely loyal conservative following, probably second only to Ronald Reagan.
But Stanton is neither a two-dimensional figure of fun nor a murderous bogeyman, and this is why Primary Colors marks an advance over most presidential movies of the past and present.
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