Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter of timing," Caples said. "We just need one to fall for us. We're not about to panic just because things have been going badly...
...sense of panic is palpable. "Almost every day I get calls from friends in large companies who have been let go," says Michelle Straussburger, a Chicago-based designer of home interiors. "A lot of the companies I work with are down to half the business they had a year ago." The government gave fresh evidence of the worsening pain last week, reporting that the unemployment rate climbed to 5.7% in September, up from 5.6% in August, for the third increase in a row. Not since the 1981-82 recession had unemployment risen for three straight months. In several Midwestern...
Aggravating the slump is a worldwide credit crunch that affects everyone from auto shoppers to Third World governments. Many lenders who were burned by bad loans in the 1980s are now prudent to a fault. Says Jacobs: "The banks are basically pushing panic buttons everywhere. They are saying, 'We don't care about your situation, we want our money now.' " At the same time, the big cash exporters of the 1980s now have little to spare. Japan, which was a net buyer of $26 billion in U.S. bonds last year, dumped them to the tune of $9 billion...
...little like a horse in panic, waiting at the gates. I think we're ready to go, I'm convinced of the merits of the campaign, and I'm anxious...
...little like a horse in a panic, waiting at the gates," Monad says. "I think we're ready to go, I'm convinced of the merits of the campaign, and I'm anxious...