Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have fanned recession fears, psychiatric referrals from a local counseling service are up nearly 20% over the past six months. Business is also booming at the Massachusetts Psychological Association referral service, where out-of-work lawyers and former bond salesmen seek help in coping with stress, anxiety disorders and panic attacks. Drugstores in the region report brisk sales in Tagamet (for ulcers), Prozac (depression) and Halcion (insomnia...
When that failed to stem the panic, the frustrated police decided to enforce a curfew along the road that passes in front of the presidential offices, thus protecting Nigeria's most prominent men from any magician, including one tempted to use the commotion to launch a coup...
Nigerians were warned. It only takes a touch, and you've lost them: your wallet from the back of your trousers or your manhood from the front. The rumor about vanishing male genitalia started sweeping Lagos two weeks ago, and by last week the capital was in a panic. Frightened mobs lynched or beat to death at least a dozen suspected organ robbers in crowded markets and bus stations, where being jostled by strangers is a fact of life. Nigerians were convinced that magicians could remove the male jewels at a touch, making them reappear in Lagos' witchcraft markets...
...result of girls burying their knowledge, says psychologist Lyn Mikel Brown, a member of the Harvard project, "is self-doubt, ambivalence, panic and loss." Researchers link this confusion to the prevalence among teenage girls of depression and eating disorders...
...million. Unocal's earnings were up 53%, to $121 million. The Justice Department and the Senate are investigating oil pricing. And some legislators, notably Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, are calling for a new windfall- profits tax. Said he: "The escalating price of oil is the result of panic, speculation and price gouging during a time of national crisis...