Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office staff at Raleigh Industries, the bicycle manufacturers, worked without heat or light so that all available power could be switched to the production line. A snuff-making firm in Sheffield regeared its production from electric power to a water wheel first used in 1737. There was panic buying of some items, notably bread and toilet paper, and camp suppliers did a booming business in butane lamps and stoves. A Battersea candlestick maker turned out a million candles a day instead of his usual 250,000. His most popular item: a wax effigy of Prime Minister Edward Heath...
Countless computers from Cambridge to M.I.T. to Caltech have been programmed to play Life, sometimes to the chagrin of those in charge of the costly machines. Martin Gardner tells of one computer specialist who has a special panic button under his desk: whenever a supervisor comes into the room, the specialist can wipe the display screen clean; later, after the supervisor has left, the computer can reach into its memory and pick up the game exactly where it left off. Nor are Americans or Britons the only ones addicted. Gardner has gotten inquiries about Life from...
...watch. Isadora, Bennet her husband, and Adrian Goodlove, a Laingian from England, get involved in an adulterous whirlwing in Vienna. Bennet--Freudian, careful, compulsively clean, straight, steadfast--represents Isadora's panic about being alone and about change. Adrian--Laingian, irresponsible, egotistical, clown, ass grabber--represents her hunger for the heady and exuberant in life. Isadora tries to choose between them, juggling security with Bennet against escape with Adrian, The National Book Award and the Transatlantic Ass Award. She sleeps with Bennet dreaming of Adrian and sleeps with Adrian needing Bennet. She doesn't want what she has, and when...
...closing time approaches, panic overtakes those who have yet to find a mate; men who have spent the evening leaning against the wall suddenly come to life and lunge toward their nubile prey. The ratio of men to women seems to be nearly 50-50 at this point, ensuring-at least in theory-that no one will leave alone. But as couples drift off into the darkness, the games have only begun. Gripes Jeff Erikson, a TV salesman from Minneapolis: "Some chicks come here to be hustled, others to fall in love. It would help if they wore different signs...
...Arabs had decided to unleash just such a monetary offensive. When highly exaggerated word that the Economic Council of the Arab League had voted to withdraw the estimated $10 billion that Arab nations have on deposit in U.S. and European banks hit the London Stock Exchange, a torrent of panic selling-described by some brokers as the worst in history-began...