Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since the FDIC stepped in the said they would insure any amount, there really wasn't much of a reaction of panic here," Holmes said...
...midair, scattering small, hard-to-detect mines over a region as large as 90,000 sq. yds. Under normal conditions, a soldier might be able to sidestep these explosives, but in the heat of battle, there is a tendency to leap without looking. The gator bomb thus can create panic among the enemy...
...emergency sessions to consider strict rationing for business and residential users. In the first unforeseen crisis of his new administration, Governor Pete Wilson stopped just short of declaring a state of emergency, instead creating a "drought action team" to draft a water plan in two weeks. "Concern is justified. Panic is not," cautioned Wilson. "This is a threat to our livelihoods, not our lives...
...whim. Having been chastised in the past for the restlessness and impatience with which | their nation conducts its affairs, the majority of Americans seem to regard the battle as a duty that must be borne. There is little war fever that could turn into panic in the face of a temporary setback. If the public changes its mind, it would be only after the war bogged down in an inconclusive quagmire...
...price plunge was aggravated last week because industrial countries, mistakenly anticipating an outbreak of panic buying as war began, gave the go- ahead to tap their emergency petroleum supplies. President Bush authorized the month-long sale of 1.1 million bbl. a day from the 585 million-bbl. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is stored in salt domes along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. The drawdown will provide some 6% of the U.S.'s daily consumption of 17 million...