Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general job situation has picked up since March," she says. "Office work is still easy to find. Technical jobs are holding steady with last year. And it's not a panic situation yet for students who want to work on campus...
...film, written and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, may seem schematic in the retelling. But on the screen it is charged with curious ironies and the edgy energy of barely suppressed panic. Its temporarily grounded jet-setters may seem rather remote figures. But in the playing they aren't as sophisticated as they would like to seem; and as they paint themselves deeper and deeper into a corner, one cannot help relating to them. Debt -- especially debt run up in pursuit of pleasures beyond one's means -- is, after all, one of the central subjects of middle-class life...
There is nothing unusual about Gorbach, except that he may be luckier than many teachers. During this spring season of fiscal bloodletting, school ) districts are slicing budgets, and a sense of panic is spreading. One by one, districts are cutting foreign languages, art and music classes, even after- school sports. Class sizes are expanding, and the school year is getting shorter. And every one of these trends is about to get worse, as states are forced to choose between extra cops or extra classrooms, health care or welfare, higher taxes or less of everything else...
Remember, if you don't like your house, you can transfer out after one year, so don't panic. But in all likelihood, this probably won't be necessary. If you survived, and perhaps even enjoyed the first-year dorm experience, then you'll probably enjoy the house thing, no matter where...
...would not offer more than $128,000. Then, using a multiple-listing book, Marshall picked out 25 houses in the area that appealed to him. He was shocked to learn that all had been sold. Said he: "I got a little bit of buyer's panic." Marshall went back to the first home and last month signed a contract...