Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international borrowing by these countries leaped by $109 billion from only 1974 through 1976. In all, the non-oil LDCS now owe about $180 billion. Such a huge expansion of overseas lending, mostly by private American financial institutions, heightens the possibility of a series of defaults that could cause panic to spread through international banking. So far, banks have managed to avoid this danger by renewing the loans or stretching out payments for some of the poorest countries. Yet the threat remains...
...Laurel and Hardy of the cybernetic world. With his English accent and his fussy manner, Threepio, the straight man of the pair, is a perfect picture of a butler who would never make it upstairs or downstairs. "We're doomed! We're doomed!" he bleats in typical panic. "This time we'll be melted down for sure...
...FIGHTING PANIC. If blacks begin buying houses in a previously white community, what can be done to discourage panic selling by white homeowners? Officials of Willingboro, N.J. (pop. 45,000), staged a town meeting in March 1973 to discuss the question, and one speaker advocated a ban on FOR SALE signs in front yards. A year later the town council passed the idea into law. The ordinance actually had little effect on housing sales, but a real estate agent challenged it, and the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck it down last week. The First Amendment prohibits restrictions on "the free...
When the German settlement rebuffs the French attack and threatens retaliation, this fragile social fabric disintegrates amid bluster, cowardice, hoarding and panic. Only one man keeps his head: a quiet, boyish geographer (Jacques Spiesser) who reveals an unsuspected flair for command. He supersedes the decent but feckless resident sergeant (Jean Carmet) and brilliantly mobilizes the local garrison...
...secrecy surrounding the tenure case of F. John Adams '67, senior lecturer of Music, and the resignation of Virginia L. Mackay-Smith '78, tour manager for the Radcliffe Choral Society, was intended to avoid unnecessary panic, the choral society president said yesterday...