Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Thank you for your informative article on Camp Heartland, the Minnesota summer camp for youngsters with HIV and AIDS [Society, Aug. 12]. I believed that prejudice against kids with AIDS was a thing of the past, but your story shows that ignorance and hysteria are still with us. It is mind-boggling how people can single out a few defenseless children for rejection because they are ill. BILL HEINMILLER Athens...
...murder of Danielle Van Dam in San Diego, then gained in intensity with the still unsolved disappearance of Elizabeth Smart in Utah and, incredibly, grew even fiercer with a series of cases from all over the country. So many shocking stories, so suddenly--a genuine crime wave or media hysteria...
...entire global economy seems to be led by a stock market whose value is based on hype and hysteria. The economy spins out of control time and time again. Profits slump, companies cut costs and sack workers, and a system that supposedly brings prosperity instead leads to ever richer CEOs while thousands of employees are out of a job. Consumer confidence falls, and things get even worse. Isn't this an insane way to run an economic system? CHAMINDA JAYANETTI Dartford, England...
...Holly Wells, two best friends who vanished from Soham in Cambridgeshire on Aug. 4. Their bodies were reported to have been found 30 km away on Saturday, and two people were arrested in connection with the case. So many shocking stories, so suddenly - a genuine crime wave or media hysteria? Or is it that in a time of lurking new risks over which people feel largely powerless - terrorist cells in the suburbs, underground Iraqi bioweapons labs - a fixation on solvable, specific mysteries is strangely soothing? The public may not yet have made much of a difference capturing terrorists, but thanks...
...corporations and businessmen who produce things are the backbone of the economy, while the markets and investors are a vaguely sinister sideshow. Bush's first reaction to revelations of corporate misconduct was to assume the best. Yes, corporate America tripped up here and there, but the subsequent hysteria was stirred up by the overheated media. He didn't want to overreact lest he hamstring honest executives. "He didn't want to do something that would hurt the real economy just to fix a perception problem," says a senior adviser...