Many hospitals refused, saying patients who needed care would be too fearful to get it.
"Many perfectly legal things that could be done with data aren't being done, because people don't want to lose their jobs, " says a computer security entrepreneur who, like many interviewed for this article, was too fearful of the advocates to let his name appear.
If President Bush is too befuddled or fearful to act now to shore up the dollar, the markets will force him to do so fairly soon.
Or to put it another way, the dramatic inversion of the Eurepo curve over just the past few weeks says something disturbing: banks are again fearful of becoming too financially dependent on each other, because they can't be certain which are healthy and which are living on borrowed time.
Certainly, there are all too many banks out there, fearful of the holes that are their balance sheets, that will continue to hoard their excess reserves, happy to earn the 25 basis points the Federal Reserve pays on those reserves.
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"If it gets too human-like, people are very fearful, " said Mr. Haass.
Proctor's mother, Dee Anne Proctor, fearful she might have lost her son, too.
Germany, which this week was warned of a possible debt downgrade, is fearful that it is already being asked to pay too much.
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Fearful of the negative trade implications that might surface if their currencies rose too much against the dollar, foreign central banks have traditionally sought to weaken their currencies during periods when the dollar sank.
While they might know that too many truancies and absences could land them in court, they're often more fearful that a parent could be deemed incapacitated and the family split up.
Mariel, too, said she has had depression and suicidal thoughts, and recalls suffering insecurity and being fearful and depressed growing up.
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