Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...range of cuts under discussion grows larger by the week, sowing panic in executive suites. Earlier this month, Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and William Cohen of Maine proposed cutting the U.S. defense budget ($291 billion in fiscal 1990) 4% in each of the next five years. That was almost twice as much as the 2.6% yearly reduction proposed by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, but not nearly so ambitious as the 10.4% whack for 1991 that the House Budget Committee suggested last week...
...doom scenario of what lay ahead for the breakaway Baltic republic in the aftermath of President Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to cut back drastically on oil and gas shipments. "Understand me correctly," said Brazauskas, leaning on the blond wood lectern. "I have never tried to frighten anyone or spread panic. We have to speak about things as they...
...Vilnius residents, many of them following the parliamentary debate over transistor radios, took advantage of a brilliant spring day to stroll Gediminas Boulevard and look into shopwindows that even in the worst of times have been better supplied than Moscow's. There were no signs of hoarding or panic buying. Said a youthful patriot, with bravado: "How can our lives be any worse than they have already been under 50 years of Communist rule...
There, and near national parks, nuclear power plants, dumps and even freshly fertilized lawns, Americans with nothing in common but an urge to protect their habitat have formed groups with names like Wyoming's Pollution Posse or acronyms such as SAVE, RESCUE and PANIC. The proliferation of environmental vigilantes took off in the mid-1980s at an astonishing rate. In 1984, 250 names were on the list of community groups regularly in contact with the National Toxics Campaign, a Boston-based organization that offers technical assistance to homegrown environmentalists. That list now has 1,200 names. The Citizens Clearinghouse...
...most stunning measure of Japan's mood swing is the Tokyo market, where the Nikkei average closed at 30,372 last week, down 6.9% for the week and 22% from the all-time high it reached last Dec. 29. In a fit of near panic last Thursday, the market plunged 6% in just one morning session -- equivalent to a 162-point drop in the Dow Jones average -- before recovering later in the day to post an overall 3% loss. "We knew it had to come sooner or later. Many of us just stood there blankly," said a floor dealer. Another...