At a conference in Paris on Tuesday, organised by the Berggruen Institute on Governance, fear and warnings flowed from every speech.
As prices began to fall away in the housing market, fear of missing out on a bonanza was replaced by fear that whatever you paid today, your illiquid real estate purchase would be worth less in six months or a year.
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And with all this great framework in place, the developers capitalize on that tension and on your fear by really embracing the title of their game: Enemy Unknown.
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Hobbes believed that humans are driven to attack and prey on one another mainly by fear of uncertainty.
But that may not be enough to stop a Europe-wide run on banks by depositors who fear a currency break-up.
Should this turn into a full economic downturn, liberals fear that the modernisers' will to take on the Islamic establishment would be severely tested by the fear of political unpopularity.
Malaysia and Singapore have been worried not so much by the fear of economic contagion as by the prospect of tens of thousands of Indonesian boat people arriving on their shores.
But both of these zones have been contested by sailors who fear that new rules will prevent them anchoring on sensitive sites.
That fear knocked share prices down by more than 3% on October 1st and widened the gap between Italian and German interest rates.
Since then, Patrick, who lives in West Virginia and doesn't want all his personal information revealed for fear of being sued by Apple, has popped up on Gizmodo, where he has shared pictures and a video of his new machine.
Fear is also carving out opportunity in securities backed up by mortgages on commercial real estate.
The French no campaign harped on the fear that living standards would be undermined by competition from the east (famously symbolised by Polish plumbers).
Voters seem to have given way to fear, skilfully stoked by the No campaign, that a tax on the rich could easily become a tax on everybody.
But she was told to go back and carry on by her managers at the examination board, for fear that the pupil's results might suffer if she did not.
Money markets were also exhibiting extreme caution, as many banks continued to refuse to lend to one another on the fear that they would be let down by defaults.
"Sometimes, we get almost paralyzed by our fear or anxiety that it's difficult to figure out on our own what our first steps need to be, " said Bufka, a psychologist in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Work on these new controls has been driven by a combination of fear and technological wizardry.
By purchasing calls on the VIX, which rises in periods of market fear or decline, one can hedge long index, ETF, or stock positions.
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It also has tried to lure customers by promising everyday low prices, a strategy many franchisees fear will tighten the squeeze on their profits.
Buck's work has also widened to include pheromones: chemicals released by animals that act on members of the same species to stimulate responses like fear and aggression.
The fear is that the country's agricultural sector will be hurt by reduced tariffs on farm products.
If you have one or more direct reports who are threatened by the fear of loss more than they are driven to attain new heights, read on.
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Nicholas Conning, 45, denies causing the death of a Jennifer Findlay by placing her in a state of fear and alarm at a property in Elders Court on 12 June 2012.
Anyone seeking definitive advice on which method is best will, I fear, be disappointed by the chief inspector's conclusion that "there is no clear statistical link between the extent of setting in schools and the attainment of pupils".
The fear of being hit by more negative legal news might be enough to keep many investors on the sidelines.
All these steps were aimed at reducing credit spreads on private loans and increasing the supply of private credit, currently constrained by fear of counterparty default, illiquidity and banks' depleted capital.
Three Google executives were convicted in Milan, Italy on February 24 this year over a bullying video posted on the site - a verdict greeted with horror by online activists, who fear it could open the gates to such prosecutions and ultimately destroy the internet itself.
Brian Murray, senior counsel, told seven judges hearing the appeal in Dublin on Wednesday that his client was being denied what she seeks for fear that without an absolute ban on assisted suicide there could be more relaxed practices by doctors.
By contrast, if the key risk you worry about is the post-inflation value of your savings falling by 50% over the next decade or two, or if you fear being unable to live on the meagre returns from even the best savings policies, then cash looks a bad choice and stock markets a better one.
Mackinder saw history being made on the Northwest frontier of India, but the Empire bled to death on the fields of France in fear of what might happen elsewhere, and by the time it got to India it handed over that frontier, out of exhaustion and a growing reluctance to fight for a possession that did not want to be possessed.
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