Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like those two characters in a Jerusalem Post cartoon, most Israelis last week seemed to be exploring a new economic landscape with little joy, a dash of mordant wit and a surprising lack of panic. It hardly seemed possible, but after nearly 30 years of semisocialism-and all the government controls and subsidies that went with it-the brave new world of laissez-faire capitalism so abruptly introduced by Premier Menachem Begin began exploding before their eyes. The Israeli pound, shorn of its artificially pegged value, quickly plunged 46% against the dollar, from 10.3 to 15.2. Prices of essential consumer...
Weekes believes that in most cases psychoanalysis is the wrong approach. She has found that prolonged stress or shock?a death, divorce or birth ?can turn ordinary anxiety into a flash of panic. Then, she says, "the fear that it will recur keeps a person within a restricted orbit. What's the use of looking into that person's childhood for an explanation...
...Word may not yet have reached the provinces, but in this capital, Mr. Carter is being talked of as a one-term President " The same day in the New York Times, Wicker re-examined his score card and hit the panic button: "People who think and talk about politics are beginning to ask^each other openly: Is Jimmy Carter a one-term President...
...dwell in Washington's echo chamber, the amplification ot their own and their colleagues' voices easily becomes further confirmation of what they have been saying. By mid-October, Tom Wicker was asking, "Is it yet time for those whc have wished him well to press the panic button about the performance of President Carter?" Wicker answered himself: "On this score card, the answer...
...less charity. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, no fans of the President, rushed to judgment: "Jimmy Carter, the miracle worker of 1976 is now marked by critics as the political incompetent of 1977 " The New York Daily News's James Wieghart saw a "concern bordering on panic ... friends and advisers feel his presidency hangs in the balance." When the polls at last did begin to show a slip in Carter's popularity, how could any Jeremiah make his alarms more alarmist...