Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With daybreak nearing, disaster strikes. Jennifer discovers she has lost her purse, child-support check and all. A panic ensues. The house is searched, and the driveway. Someone hatches a plan to drive downtown and retrace Jennifer's steps, which won't be easy. "Where did you leave it?" her friends keep asking, but she just sighs and insists she can't remember...
...Earth every second (fortunately, without doing any damage). Even a minuscule mass could give them enough combined gravity to slow the expansion of the universe that followed the Big Bang. They might conceivably even reverse it, leading to a cosmic catastrophe aptly named the Big Crunch. No need to panic, though; it won't happen for tens of billions of years...
...thunder out of Asia rolled into Russia last week, shaking the already wobbly economy and its twitchy investors. A spate of panic selling sent the stock market plunging and plunging, and it ended the week worth half as much as it was a year ago. Even before the bubble popped in Thailand, South Korea and Indonesia, Boris Yeltsin's government was living dangerously. It was juggling $150 billion in foreign debt, running huge budget deficits and resorting to a kind of pyramid scheme in which it was selling new treasury bills to pay interest on those it had sold earlier...
Harvard President James Bryant Conant '14 testified against the bill before the joint House-Senate Committee on Education in February. Conant said the bill was a sign that "the American people had begun to succumb to a panic...
...diverting the asteroid from its deadly path. We could probably do with fewer of ambitious TV reporter Tea Leoni's problems with her wayward dad, but on the whole there are worse people with whom to spend our (presumably final) days. Director Mimi Leder handles the scene of mass panic very well, and the script does not allow the world to escape disaster completely unscathed. That's believable, and so are the nicely understated moments of self-sacrifice that bring the movie to its emotionally redemptive climax...