Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Republicans are not reaching for the panic button because they believe Bush will escape grievous harm unless fears about the economy become reality. Another reason for their calm is that no Democrats are yet rising as serious challengers for 1992. Nate Landow, Democratic Party chairman in Maryland, concedes, "We're certainly more optimistic now, and there are new opportunities. But I'm not sure we know how to exploit them...
...case began in 1983 when the mother of one of the children wrote police a letter accusing Buckey of sexually molesting her 2 1/2-year-old son. Not long after, police set off a panic among parents by sending letters to 200 of them stating that authorities were investigating charges of sodomy at the preschool. After videotaped interviews were conducted with 400 children, investigators decided that 369 had been abused. Later, the mother whose claims had initiated the case complained to prosecutors that someone had sodomized her dog and that her estranged husband and an AWOL Marine were also abusing...
...sprinted back to the press box, ahead of schedule. There was no telephone to be seen. And no man with a red shirt. I went through an two-minute spin cycle from calm crisis management to fury to panic and back to calm. I sat down to write my story...
Then came mad panic. In the scramble to escape, hundreds were crushed under the frantic feet of their co-religionists; others collapsed in the airless heat. "It was terrible," an Arab survivor told Saudi television. "When one stumbled, scores trampled him and hundreds fell on top of them." According to Islamic teachings, to die while on the hajj ensures immediate ascension to heaven. On that day 1,426 Muslims earned the privilege...
...such pedestrian sentiments were fully reciprocated by a growing part of opinion in East Germany. Citizens there, used to safe and easy jobs, subsidized rents and cheap food, began to panic about the pitfalls of capitalism. They also resented the idea that the fruits of 40 years' labor had proved to be rotten and that East Germans would continue to be, for years to come, the poor relatives of their Western counterparts...