Word: hysterias
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...desires--or indeed any bill--is one of the major questions of 1986. Spy scandals, headed by the exposure of the Walker-family espionage ring, proliferated as rarely, if ever, before. The scare of the year was medical: the spread of AIDS touched off public anxiety and hysteria far beyond anything warranted by the facts, though the facts were surely grim enough. Of 15,775 people who had caught the disease, 8,122 were known to have died...
...control advocates are distraught over this development, predicting a rise in everything from road-rage episodes to gang violence. Gun toters may wrongly assume they have "total immunity from prosecution," said Miami police chief John Timoney. The law's supporters dismiss such concerns as liberal hysteria and extol the bill's passage as a victory for law-abiding citizens. Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A.'s excruciatingly macho executive vice president, crowed, "[This will] make criminals pause before they commit their next rape, robbery or murder...
People caught up in disasters tend to fall into three categories. About 10% to 15% remain calm and act quickly and efficiently. Another 15% or less completely freak out--weeping, screaming or otherwise hindering the evacuation. That kind of hysteria is usually isolated and quickly snuffed out by the crowd. The vast majority of people do very little. They are "stunned and bewildered," as British psychologist John Leach put it in a 2004 article published in Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine...
...killing one Lebanese civilian. Israel quickly retaliated with an air strike on the headquarters of a radical Lebanese group that has claimed responsibility for seven car-bomb attacks on Israeli positions. Peres is said to be ready to adopt stronger antiterrorist measures. "There is no place for incitement and hysteria," Peres said. But, he promised, "there will be no compromise" when it comes to sabotage and terrorism...
...Calif., allege that they are suffering from runny noses, bronchitis, sore throats, headaches and eye irritation. Santa Barbara county officials have been at work clarifying the problem. They found the area was experiencing a spider migration described by the agricultural commissioner as "common." If cobwebs can result in community hysteria and "burning skin and eyes," certainly the odors common to any waste facility have little chance of being understood. Jan Lachenmaier Director of Public Relations Casmalia Resources Santa Barbara, Calif. Soviet Charmer...