Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reaction was just the opposite of what the markets had been bracing for. Investors were expected to panic once the shooting started. Fearing a meltdown similar to the October 1987 crash, brokerage firms and mutual-fund companies deployed extra staff and canceled vacations to meet the anticipated stampede of customers. Many exchanges, including the New York and London markets, considered plans to shut down temporarily, as they did at the start of World War I and the end of World War II. Instead, they enacted emergency rules to limit wide market gyrations. Rather than prevent a crash, the so-called...
...alone, five months pregnant, far from her family. Her husband had just left for the gulf. She'd been having trouble concentrating at work. But when she felt herself losing control, overwhelmed by a rising sense of panic, she dialed the toll-free hot line provided by her company for employees in distress. A counselor on the other end referred her to a local psychologist for help...
...beyond, Washington even stood behind deposits of more than $100,000, the limit covered by federal insurance. But when the small, black-owned Freedom National Bank (assets: $121 million) failed last November in New York City's Harlem, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation saw no risk of a widespread panic and let holders of large deposits suffer heavy losses. Stunned charities, churches and other customers lost $11 million in accounts that exceeded the $100,000 limit...
...economy is also especially vulnerable to shock waves from overseas. A panic in Japan's superheated real estate market would shake Japanese lenders and help trigger a global slump. So could the chaos that would ensue if the Soviet Union's restive republics plunge that country into civil...
Wary of pouring money down a sinkhole, Bush promised to send over experts in food distribution to prevent the Western supplies from rotting in warehouses alongside this year's Soviet harvest. The goal is to ease the panic of Soviet shoppers, who daily confront empty shelves in government stores. Experts believe hoarding, born of fear, is exacerbating the shortages -- and that cannot be solved by credits alone. "If the problem isn't with how much they can grow, the solution isn't going to be in how much more they can buy abroad," notes Richard Feltes, vice president of Chicago...