Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reduced Panic. Many of the new giants have also gone public, and the two largest are on the Big Board. They have replaced part-time accountants with cost-conscious controllers, lean to computers and automated distribution warehouses in place of production charts and pushcarts. On a shopping spree of their own, they are buying up smaller companies, expanding into Europe, financing on Wall Street. After hearing their business for years compared to a crap game, they are finding themselves lionized by analysts because of their sustained earnings and growth. "After 40 years in the business," admits Majestic Specialties' President...
...companies amassed enough capital to plan beyond a season at a time. They learned better merchandising, pushed brand names with national advertising, mailers and store displays. Increasing capital and slower style changes have allowed them to concentrate on quality control and have reduced the eternal Seventh Avenue panic over a thousand dozen garments turned out with mis-tailored sleeves or weepy dyes...
...room impermeable to light and sound. There he is stuffed into a rubber diving suit and submerged in a tank of water warmed to body heat. His external sensations disappear, and as the hours go by he passes through six successive stages of sensory deprivation: irritation, melancholia, hallucination, panic, disorientation and stupor. When his assistants finally haul him out of the tank, Bogarde is more like a jellyfish than a human being, a mindless blob who will do anything anybody tells...
...guests at a dinner party are all in some sort of disguise. Or are they spies disguised as guests? Men the shape of heavyweight boxers are disguised as women. Who is who? Nobody will ever know. A chance remark about the difficulty of getting duck causes panic and consternation, since one of the guests, who has ears like headphones and eyes like a sniper's, is clearly the representative of the unmentionable absent reality-Big Brother. Somebody offers an explanation. Food distribution in the cities should not be underestimated. "Duck, chicken, even goose, and even the rarest bird...
...panic. Despite the loss of several players who were essential to the Crimson's surprising dash for the Eastern pennant, coach Norm Shepard might produce another contender...