Word: doomful
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...rational to the sufferer, Barreira said. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness, affecting 11 percent of the population in a general medical setting, he said. Panic attacks, another subset of anxiety disorder, are characterized by sweaty palms, palpitations and often a “feeling of impending doom,” Barreira said. Panic attacks often consist of three phases starting with the initial attack, which is followed by stages of withdrawal and avoidance. An extreme result of panic attacks is agoraphobia, in which sufferers “avoid everything,” in order to prevent experiencing...
...hisessay "A Can-Do Nation" [April 9], Bill Bradley rightly described the American character as "open, generous, expansive, forward looking, creative, egalitarian and optimistic." His article should be required reading for each and every presidential candidate. Enough with the gloom and doom...
...Loker Commons, the creation of the Lamont Library Café, the renovation of the Mather and Dunster dining halls, and the creation of a new dance center when the old one was shut down. All of these major student life initiatives were on the brink of doom or significant delay because of the whim of one person—the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...agree with Wiggin, then former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's legendary ability to pilot us past market jitters and avert major economic dislocations is something not to be praised but to be condemned. Among the doom crowd, Greenspan's decision to slash interest rates as the stock market plummeted in 2001, which fueled the last leg of the real estate boom, is seen as his gravest error. Despite his raising rates since then, Greenspan's successor Ben Bernanke is if anything even more reviled. His sin was committed in 2002 when, as a member of the Federal Reserve Board...
...Bernanke-Greenspan point of view is that averting Great Depression--style financial meltdowns by opening the federal monetary spigot is a good thing. The doom guys (who usually refer to Bernanke as "Helicopter Ben") argue that this is short-sighted. Without occasional, and painful, unravelings of debt and speculation, debt and speculation inevitably get out of hand. It's a stark, almost Puritan way of looking at the world, and it has been out of step with economic reality for the past quarter-century. But that doesn't mean it always will...