Word: franticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were a little frantic, I think," freshman middie Genevieve Chelius said. "When we settled down, we started to play a lot better...
Before long, word got around that Grays Middle had taken the Plate. I hesitated to believe it (ignoring potentially false cries of victory is among the first rules of Hunting). But when the frantic frosh stopped sprinting through the Yard. I knew I had lost again. At least this time it was a clean loss. I was ready to take it like a man, go out for ice-cream, you know, maybe talk a little about Science...
They say that the central government of the newly-named Union of Sovereign States hopes soon to establish a plan of economic reform that will move them to a market-based economy. "Very frantic work is being carried out right now," says Yuriy N. Isakov, senior counsel for economic affairs at the Soviet mission in New York City...
...containers. "They were so heavy we had to use a crane rather than a forklift," says a participant. The crates were trucked to a "secure airport" and loaded aboard an unmarked 707 jet, where an American, believed by the black-unit members to be a CIA agent, supervised the frantic activity...
Since last summer, a flurry of crushing financial blows has turned an already brutal culling process into a full-scale rout. The airlines were loaded with debt after a decade of mergers, frantic expansion and multibillion-dollar orders for new aircraft. The approach of the gulf war brought a sharp run-up in oil prices, adding $2 billion, or 12.5%, to the industry's jet-fuel costs. Then, in a desperate bid to fill seats as the recession deepened and war jitters sidelined travelers, U.S. airlines slashed fares. By last April, 95% of all U.S. air passengers were traveling...