Word: franticness
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According to Daily Editor-in-Chief Tom Geier, the staff was "frantic" until a careful study of the parody revealed that the Cornell Daily Sun was the perpetrator...
...rekindled fears that an era of heedless borrowing by corporations and the Federal Government might finally be coming to grief. At the very least, the rout reminded investors that the stock market is a volatile place where fortunes can vanish at the touch of a computer key. After one frantic hour of selling conducted to a large extent by program trades, nearly $200 billion of stock values were wiped out last week...
...frenzies. It is good showmanship, a way of relieving the itchy ironies of Judah's discomfiting story. It also rings with irony. If neither Judah's guilty musings on his own crimes -- and he does exhibit a strong desire to be caught and punished -- nor decent Cliff's frantic quest for some kind of fulfillment can awaken heaven's sleeping eye, then what in this world can? If Manhattan, coming at the end of the '70s, was Woody Allen's comment on that decade's besetting sin, self-absorption, then this is his concluding unscientific postscript on the besetting...
...Crimson (6-2 overall, 2-0 Ivy) scored its lone tally after a frantic flurry of point-blank shots early in the second half...
Just about every aspect of America's zoos has dramatically changed -- and improved -- from what viewers saw a generation ago. Gone are the sour cages full of frantic cats and the concrete tubs of thawing penguins. Instead the terrain is uncannily authentic, and animals are free to behave like, well, animals, not inmates. Here is a Himalayan highland full of red pandas, there a subtropical jungle where it rains indoors, eleven times a day. The effect is of an entire globe miraculously concentrated, the wild kingdom contained in downtown Chicago or the North Bronx. As American zoos are renovated...