Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, not quite. Still, Park had totally dominated the country for 18 years, and many citizens had feared his abrupt death would spell instant chaos. Yet there had been no panic, no runs on banks, no scrambles to hoard food. Instead, the prosperous capital city of Seoul (pop. 8 million) quickly pulsated back to normal life. The economy, despite 20% inflation, continued to chug along toward a record export target of $15.5 billion this year...
...competition between Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and President Jimmy Carter has the ingredients of a bad campaign, which already shows signs of descending into farce. Carter delivers pork barrel packages to primary states--coincidentally--around election time. He makes thudding insinuations about panic in a crisis. Kennedy castigates Carter for decontrolling home heating oil prices. Fine, except that Ford did it and Kennedy voted for it. Petty bickering breaks out between the two camps over whose version of the facts is more distorted; the issue of energy costs is trivialized. Veteran campaign watchers are predicting that this...
...officials added that Americans can compensate for the cut-off in Iranian oil by reducing their average automobile travel by three miles daily. "With proper conservation there should be no cause for concern; there should be no cause for panic," officials said...
...United States growing waste disposal problems have been brought to the public's attention in the last month by a series of incidents. First, Ray shut down the Hanford site, causing a slight panic among the nation's universities and hospitals which depend on radioactive maerials for their experiments. A couple of weeks later, Nevada Gov. Robert List shut down the second of the nation's three radioactive waste burial grounds at Beatty, Nev. "I'm just tired of having to assume the responsibility for having our people take the risks in a system which is not properly regulated," List...
...music business dropped off earlier this year and economic panic spread, investments of both high hopes and hard cash were being made in Tusk. Like the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac was the kind of "monster" group that was expected to pull the business out of the doldrums. Both records, indeed, seem well up to such heavy hauling, especially since the runaway success of In Through the Out Door, Led Zeppelin's album of surprisingly graceful power, has cleared the road and got rock fans to reach for their wallets again...