• Every October their slickly produced horrors scare up big money, and they are not alone.

    ECONOMIST: Fear is booming

  • To scare up more business, Petersen started publishing a literary quarterly called the Rivendell Reader.

    FORBES: Easy Rider

  • It's a shame to see them pretending little has changed so they can scare up some votes.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Holder's Racial Politics

  • And so you don't scare hardworking Americans just to scare up some votes.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Hilliard, OH

  • You know the General Motors finance guys are getting imaginative when the automaker establishes its own bank to scare up cash.

    FORBES

  • Opposition candidates have tried to scare up support by encouraging conspiracy theories that the president is plotting to remain in power, perhaps by somehow sabotaging the election.

    ECONOMIST: Anyone but Arroyo

  • The Clintons have to get past former Gov. Doug Wilder who thinks Bill Clinton went too far in using race to scare up support from white voters.

    CNN: Commentary: McCain's trials on right similar to Schwarzenegger's

  • The Mets have an Amway shop in their park, and could probably scare up a better outfield from among its employees than the one they'll actually be fielding.

    WSJ: The Cloud Over New York Baseball

  • Another problem: It takes a while to scare up clients.

    FORBES: Entrepreneurs

  • Paul Woods, chief executive of the algae-to-ethanol company Algenol, came to New York this week from company headquarters in Florida to try to scare up some money for a pilot plant in Freeport, Texas.

    FORBES: In Washington, Algae Is Treated Like Slime

  • Every few months some consulting firm trying to (literally) scare up some business will come out with a report about how Bluetooth or WiFi or some other thing is vulnerable to hackers and is a major security risk.

    ENGADGET: blogger-avatar

  • Fakhrai spent more than a year trying to scare up funding and was so grateful to the Murdocks that he agreed to give them a 60% stake in NovaRx, and he welcomed Justin, 35, aboard as chief executive.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Were you completely asleep at the "editorial wheel" when you allowed the authors of this story to scare up a few ex-employees and a few disgruntled customers and then steer the reader to believe these views are those of a much larger population of employees and customers?

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Among the findings: U.S. interrogators threatened a captured al Qaeda operative with a power drill to try to scare him into giving up information.

    CNN: Top prosecutor orders probe into interrogations; Obama shifts onus

  • The close scare served to wake up Preston, and David Healy headed just over from close in before Craig Brown's took the lead through Cresswell's header.

    BBC: Preston 1-0 Reading

  • "People need to be very responsible about these things and not to get caught up in scare stories but instead take a reasoned and logical consideration of it and do what's best for their child, " he added.

    BBC: Boy with measles

  • They worry that introducing top-up fees would scare off potential students from poor families.

    ECONOMIST: The battle-lines over university fees have been drawn

  • They know that their jobs are at risk if their hospital does not prosper: but their jobs are also at risk if they drive up costs or scare away customers.

    ECONOMIST: For-profit medicine

  • Barkley could not add the extras, and Bath survived a scare when Michael Bond rampaged up field, but a superbly executed Abendanon tackle on Takudzwa Ngwenya closed the door on the French.

    BBC: Bath 11-12 Biarritz

  • As India's high-tech sector boomed in the build-up to the Y2K scare (the computer glitch that later fizzled), Manglik began to imagine returning to India once his daughters finished college.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Britain's Lorna Woodroffe fought off an injury scare and went on to set up a second-round meeting with US start Jennifer Capriati in the DFS Women's Tennis Classic at Edgbaston in Birmingham.

    BBC: Woodroffe sets up Capriati tie

  • Brands has held up okay from the scare.

    FORBES: China's Bird Flu A Problem For Yum! Brands, Co Says

  • His injury scare prompted the Lions management to call up Wales' James Hook to provide additional goal-kicking options and cover at fly-half and inside centre.

    BBC: Halfpenny joins Lions squad in SA

  • So, unless the bears can come up with a reason to scare the heck out of us again in relatively short order, we should keep in mind that markets tend to exit a consolidation pattern heading in the same direction they were going before the consolidation pattern began.

    FORBES: So Does This Mean the Bull Market is Over?

  • Until someone comes up with the next great, cheap scare, expect lots more found footage and more Paranormal Activity.

    FORBES: The Triumph Of 'Paranormal Activity'

  • It seemed Chelsea had three points wrapped up but they had to survive a scare when Kalou conceded a penalty for tugging back Ilunga.

    BBC: West Ham 0-1 Chelsea

  • "A little snow doesn't scare me, " said Leeann Rivera, 43, stocking up at the only major grocery store still open in the Sandy-ravaged Far Rockaway section of Queens.

    WSJ: Sandy in back of Easterners' minds as snow falls

  • The problem with flops is that they scare studios away from risky films and the movie-viewing public ends up with an endless procession of sequels and films based on best-selling young adult books.

    FORBES: Flops Like 'Scott Pilgrim' Are Bad For The Movie Business

  • But he refused to give an estimate of the numbers of people who might move to Britain after getting the right to live and work in the UK in December, saying he did not want to start a "scare story" and that more work had to be done on drawing up a robust figure.

    BBC: Airport arrivals sign

  • Frankly, I do not share the alarm or the panic that some seem to feel is warranted, since it has the appearance of a charade, a scare tactic, of sorts, that works on the elderly and lathers up the right wing, gun toting, sign carrying wahoos that believe the end of America is at hand.

    FORBES: The New Wisconsin Anti-Collective Bargaining Law Primer - What's Actually In It?

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