Word: panic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past two years. At the same time, there were signs that even Thieu's small constituency was beginning to feel that a settlement might not only be inevitable but perhaps even workable. One indication was the fact that the savings that middle-class Vietnamese were withdrawing in panic only last month were now beginning to flow back into Saigon's banks...
...Maitland is so introspectively self-concerned that he reveals his total being, while Butley is relentlessly analytical of other people and utterly blind to himself. This inhibits the playgoer's compassion. Maitland's experiences are a distillation of pain; Butley's, merely a concentrated display of panic. Nonetheless, there is considerable pathos in Butley, for his manic verbal foolery is the despair of a man who cannot afford the respite of silence...
...nation that piles up giant surpluses in dealings with the rest of the world, and refuses to do anything to reduce them (TIME, Oct. 9). Japanese newspapers interpreted his speech as an attempt to push Japan into revaluing the yen, and their screaming headlines touched off a brief panic on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Result: the Japanese government took prompt action to bring in more imports and give less encouragement to exporters...
...Williams, the black photographer who led 1970-71 fight against the use of Polaroid's identification systems in South Africa and who now heads people Against National Identity Cards (PANIC) urged students to refuse Id Cards He said they are an extension of the same system of repression used in South Africa...
Williams said PANIC plans to demonstrate at the center when Edwin H. Land, president of Polaroid who earmarked $12.6 million for the science center comes to open the building...