Word: franticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says the entertainer sexually abused him), the civil suit should be put on hold lest Jackson inadvertently incriminate himself during the proceedings. The other lawyer on the Jackson team, as well as everyone else following the case, suddenly did a double-take. What criminal indictment? As the press made frantic but fruitless calls to the Santa Barbara County office, Fields backpedaled and admitted that he had received the information from someone else and that "evidently it turned out the rumor was false." In any case, the judge denied his request for a delay of the civil suit, setting a trial...
...Chinese are justified in their haughty response to American human-rights posturing. They know that if Congress tries to rescind China's MFN status, it will be besieged by frantic business lobbies which are currently salivating at the prospect of cheap labor and a market over a billion strong. Even the relatively minor sanctions imposed by the U.S. over the supposed Pakistan arms shipments hurt American companies more than it hurts the Chinese government...
...several calls from frantic studentsstuck at the airport tonight," Gabay said. "Butthere's nothing we could do about that...
Annan uses the word frantic to describe the effects of Washington's planned withdrawal from Somalia by the end of next March. The first U.S. soldiers depart in December, along with most of the French; the Belgians are leaving this month. The Germans have said they will withdraw in April; the Italians have suddenly decided to "reevaluate" their continued presence. "If all these people leave," says a U.N. official, "it will be total anarchy...
...frantic rush into funds has naturally caught the eye of politicians and regulators in Washington. Henry Gonzalez, the Texan who chairs the House Banking Committee, last month submitted a bill that would require banks to sell funds in areas separate from teller windows; Gonzalez also wants banks to require customers to sign a statement that they understand that mutual funds are not insured, thereby lending the force of law to federal guidelines already on the books. Representative Edward Markey, who chairs the finance panel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is preparing a bill to tighten standards on mutual...