Word: hysteria
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...That is so out of proportion to the reality. Parents think I'm a child molester when I say it, but the Department of Justice data for the last fifteen years is very clear on the subject. As parental hysteria has escalated due to anxieties, the actual data show that this is not a legitimate fear. When you look at the Department of Justice data, this is just not a major phenomenon. You've got to know the kids are in far more danger inside the home than outside the home. Stepfathers are a big problem. Sexual abuse happens...
...candy bar containing a straight pin. At least 22 pieces of “Trick” candy appeared around New York City: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Cadbury Chocolates, apples, and even Coke contained dangerous and nasty surprises. It is quite possible that the collective hysteria that struck nationwide last weekend indirectly caused these incidents to occur. With countless articles about the issue (prompted by countless meetings by many overreacting parents), newspapers and television spots put ideas into that many more sick heads. Just as paranoia builds on itself until the subject is immobilized, so the elaborate...
...Icelanders - from cab drivers who recite economic statistics to Prime Minister Geir Haarde who travels the world calming investors' nerves - the hysteria appears overblown. "What you'd expect to see out of these windows is fire," says Finnur Oddsson, managing director of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce. Instead, he peers out at a $138 million construction project at the University of Reykjavik. Iceland, he points out, has been in this situation before. In early 2006, credit agencies criticized Icelandic banks for their lack of transparency and reliance on international capital markets. Analysts' opprobrium drove the krona down by 25% against...
...warming which caused the frenzy lasted only 25 years. From 1875 to 1975 internationally accepted records suggest that the average global temperature rose by a total of just 0.2C. It was only the 0.5C rise recorded in the fourth quarter of the last century that produced the hysteria that has sparked this gold rush among green entrepreneurs and investors...
...lesser tournament than the Champion's League, but that didn't stop both Prime Minister Putin and his President-consort Dmitri Medvedev from celebrating Zenit as if it had defended Mother Russia against foreign aggression. In the same week, a second opportunity to whip up national hysteria came when Russia defeated Canada to win ice hockey's World Championship for the first time since 1993. And Putin continues to pour funds into his pet project of holding the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian Black Sea resort Sochi...