One thing we hesitate with is that people get afraid of bacteria.

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What else could people buy as they get more and more afraid of paper currencies losing acceptance?

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While Congress has been afraid to permanently get rid of the threatened cut (they still figure in the total value of the cut in reaching their government healthcare expenditure numbers) and toss out the formula that failed to work as planned, the cut continues to be deferred.

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On the other hand, true innovation at lightning pace means any developer will get some things wrong, and not be afraid of that.

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"A lot of these animals are afraid, and they don't get that way for no reason, " says Toni Eakes, the founder of A Wish for Animals sanctuary, who helped coordinate the rescue.

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"We choreographers get our fingertips on that world everyone else is afraid of, where there are no words for things, " he told Jerome Robbins.

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If you know somebody who's caught in a dead-end job and afraid he can't afford the classes necessary to get better jobs for the rest of his life, tell him not to give up -- he can go on to college.

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"If you have to take Xanax to get on the elevator, you never learn that the elevator isn't something to be afraid of, " says Dr. Josephson.

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He told me there are hundreds of injured, but because so many are afraid to seek treatment, it is impossible to get an accurate count.

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