Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Today, we displayed the maturity and composure that this team has had all year," Getman said. "When we were down 1-0, we didn't panic and kept our cool...
World Bank economists in Washington swallowed hard when the message suddenly flashed on their screens. Identifying itself as "Traveller 1991," an invading computer virus announced, "Do not panic. I am harmless." Horrified bank officials, who use computers to transfer billions from developed countries to hard-pressed parts of the world, wondered at first if it was possible for some tiny nation to fill its coffers by tapping into their inner sanctum. An international army of computer nerds and police experts soon tracked down the trespasser and pronounced it harmless. But what about the next one? Scotland Yard investigators, who traced...
...miles northeast of Moscow on the Trans-Siberian railway line through the Ural Mountains. Salt, sugar, butter, eggs, macaroni and even matches must be bought with ration coupons -- assuming, of course, that state- run stores have the items. At harvest time, a shortage of sugar caused a near panic; without it, fruits and berries from family garden plots could not be made into preserves for the coming winter. In Perm, as elsewhere in provincial Russia, food and tobacco rate higher on the day's agenda than revolution. Young couples continue to lay wedding bouquets at the Lenin monument instead...
...Chickering was among the first ashore. "Correspondents are supposed to be an intrepid lot," he wrote. Nevertheless, Chickering was well aware of the dangers of combat. In January 1945, while serving aboard the battleship New Mexico, he penned a humorous spoof titled "How to Be Unafraid in Warfare, Though Panic-Stricken," in which he poked fun at some of the risks of war. On Jan. 6, at 28, he was killed when a Japanese plane carrying a bomb crashed on the navigation bridge of the New Mexico...
...fundamentalist Shi'ites will not give up their capital without a struggle. When 20,000 people, mostly schoolchildren, gathered in the ruins for a Peace Day sponsored by the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism in June, Hizballah fired its antiaircraft artillery and the celebration ended in panic. The ruins had been transformed, complained Hizballah in a communique, "into a market where women show their flesh and where obscene proposals are exchanged...