"Everyone was very scared and wanted to take their money away to the U.S. and Europe, " says Carlos Montemayor, chief of Marcatel, a Telmex rival in long-distance service.

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And when I am scared, and the possibility of death becomes very real as the bullets and shrapnel rip through the air around us, I know that everyone else is scared, too.

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He was a very sensitive child and would be scared to confront anybody in the village.

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For too many Western brands, "it's the ugliest race to the bottom because the financial crisis in America and Europe means that people are getting very scared of buying expensive things, " says Sanjiv Pandita, executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Monitor Resource Center, which tracks labor conditions across the region.

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Tziahanas, who works the compliance side of social media, said that as banks are starting their foray into social media the lawyers and compliance officers are very aggressive because they are scared of the new communications tools.

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It's very simple, when you go to Acts, when those men who were scared because the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has been taken away from them, they were told to go to an upper room.

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