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The tremor sparked fear and chaos, with many in the Muslim-majority nation of 170 million people at home on their day off.

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In 1961, a small child looks with fear into the eyes of a costumed Santa in New York City, a primal reaction that transcends decades.

Manchester City and Manchester United feared they could eventually breach the anchoring limit as their revenues grow, but Arsenal and Liverpool voted in favour of it.

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Instead, “it’s mostly serving to confirm all of their worst fears.”

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He has urged his team to push fear of failure out of their minds and focus on what he’s calling “the biggest series of our lives.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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