Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report is no reason to panic -- or even to lose sleep. If there is a cancer risk, it is a small one. The evidence is still so controversial that the draft stirred a great deal of debate within the Bush Administration, and the EPA released it over strong objections from the Pentagon and the White House. But now no one can deny that the issue must be taken seriously and that much more research is needed...
However, the dean added that the GSAS would take no action until it had contacted the Department of Education. "We need to wait and see how this all sorts out before we panic and restructure something that has been very effective for us," she said...
...lines were not done by me. It was again a panic for no reason because there was enough oil, a huge stock. But the consumers panicked, and this is why we had gas lines...
...same time, though, merchants are protecting their perilously thin profit margins by cutting expenses, especially inventory costs. Macy's, which was swept up in the price-cutting panic among big stores last Christmas when it found itself more than 10% overstocked, is carrying about $640 million less inventory this year. Orders of U.S.-made apparel are down 8% industry-wide this season, while in Hong Kong clothing manufacturers report a flurry of canceled and curtailed orders from big U.S. stores...
HOARDING. Stores have been battered in recent weeks by waves of panic buying ; that have periodically cleaned shelves of sugar, milk, flour, matches and other staples. As a Moscow housewife sheepishly confesses, "My kitchen is loaded with cereals, and my bathroom is piled with soap. I can barely turn around in my apartment." The hysteria often reflects fears about the future, but it creates immediate problems...