Word: hysteria
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...paneled corridors of Manhattan's brokerage firms and investment houses, the scandal was reverberating in an atmosphere that one eminent Wall Street lawyer described as "hysteria." At blue-chip law firms, telephones rang incessantly as worried players of the multibillion-dollar business- takeover game sought advice and protection. Said a nervous Manhattan brokerage executive: "Everyone is scared to read the newspaper in case his name might be in it." Similar jitters struck in Los Angeles, where guards carefully screened visitors to the offices of one of the country's hottest investment firms, now the focus of curiosity and controversy...
...church regards condoms as artificial contraceptive devices whose use, even to avoid lethal disease, is forbidden. In the view of the NAS panel and Surgeon General Koop, however, action must no longer be delayed. AIDS researchers have faced an exquisite dilemma: they initially felt obliged to calm public hysteria stirred by the false idea that AIDS can be spread by casual contact, but in the process some may have played down the threat of the disease. No more. In their view, it is time for a call to battle...
...School study group, which consists of professors, doctors, researchers and policy makers, was formed in response to AIDS hysteria and the random solutions of quarantine and testing it provoked. The group is researching methods of screening for AIDS without violating civil liberties, says Jonathan H. Mermin '87-'88, a student who is taking this year off to initiate the study group. "The group is dealing with questions of accuracy, who to test and the political and social effects of tests," he says...
...hysteria of war, radical measures were taken with little or no public health benefit," says Brandt, referring to the incarceration of prostitutes. "Before invoking radical measures in the AIDS epidemic, we have to know they'll work and [that] they are the least restrictive of all possible measures," Brandt says. "Maybe legislators can learn from past mistakes or successes," he adds...
When they promise to "rid society of drugs," politicians are merely striking a pose as ardent defenders of some "American" value. But there are other values people depend on their government to defend and protect, and perhaps many Americans fear they would be trampled upon in the hysteria to cleanse this country of drugs. If they don't, they should...