Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Airport 1975 is a sequel to Airport, with its patented formula-panic in the skies, dither on the ground-it is reasonable to assume that the passengers on this Columbia Airlines 747 are going to find themselves in grave peril...
Your story "Coping with Cancer" [Oct. 14] is full of the kind of scare words that contribute to the widespread panic and misapprehension about breast surgery. That "all women feel mutilated by a mastectomy" is simply not true. I've had two such operations and feel no more "mutilated" than if I'd lost an abscessed front tooth...
When polls showed 45% of Swiss voters in favor of the amendment, government and business leaders went into a near panic. Some multinational companies promptly drew up contingency plans to move their operations elsewhere. Economists predicted that mass expulsion would cause many businesses to go bankrupt. Georges-Henri Martin, managing editor of the Tribune de Geneve, likened the amendment to "the nightmare of the deportees of World War II," and warned that it meant expulsion of 62,500 foreigners from Geneva (pop. 339,000) alone. In France and Italy, there were rumblings of retaliation in kind against Swiss residents there...
...Ford Foundation announcement, Board Chairman Alexander Heard cautioned that "we ought to guard against pushing the panic button too hard or too soon." Yet there are those who think that Ford is already pressing it too hard. In what seemed to be a gentle reproof, Dr. John Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, commented: "Organizations such as ours have a magnificent opportunity in times of depression or turmoil to stand firm...
...corporations, pin down the evasions of company doctors, reveal the indifference of Government bureaucrats charged with enforcing industrial health laws. They come to a common conclusion: for many years, many industries, doctors and Government agencies have joined in a tacit conspiracy to downplay industrial dangers in order not to panic workers, tarnish corporate images or endanger profits. Brodeur is especially effective in detailing the overlapping membership of medical experts on boards that advise both industry and the Government agencies that set safety standards, mostly with the good of industry in mind...