"Ultimately some of the smallest businesses may think twice about employing young women through fear of them going on maternity leave, " he said.

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Medlar testified she began recording Cisneros in 1990 out of fear that Cisneros, who was going through an on-again, off-again reconciliation with his wife, would stop the payments.

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It may be the lingering fear that a patient going under the knife does not always pull through.

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Which skeeves you out more: the thought of going to meet a stranger you only know through Craigslist, or the thought of a company exploiting fear of getting raped or killed to win new customers?

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"I do fear we're not really appreciating the absolute horror of what someone's going through there, " he told the Radio Times, describing the conversion of Lewis's character into a clandestine al Queda operative as "almost like titillation".

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