Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WOMEN Leg Panic...
...does to handling diplomatic crises. Once, when Ruggie got upset at Annan for not cracking down on recalcitrant staff members, Annan asked Ruggie why he was panicking. "The only reason I am panicked is because you are not panicked," Ruggie said. Grinning, Annan responded, "Why do I need to panic when I have people like you to panic for me?" That affability often masks a tested steeliness. Officials who embarrassed Annan through their incompetence have found themselves in some of the world's least comfortable locations. An American official who witnessed Annan's negotiating technique adds that "he's very...
Investors are courting an old flame: bond mutual funds. But how sincere are their intentions? The relationship sputtered in 1994, when bond funds logged their worst year in six decades and investors fled the church in a panic. Now they're back for another fling. In January net new cash flowing into bond funds surged to an estimated $11.5 billion--the most since August 1993. The disturbing thing is that people probably don't understand this fickle mate any better today than they...
...invoke a perhaps too-available and all-encompassing analogy, are much like the Titanic, both the movie and the ship. In other words, it's a grand, old-fashioned blockbuster that stirs you in some primal, half-forgotten place, however vigilant your defenses, throwing up simple human images of panic and delight and loss; and a huge, showy, zillion-dollar model of the family of man that, for all its state-of-the-art grandeur and planning, cannot outswerve a block of ice. It shouldn't work, but it does; things should work, but they don't. As the surprise...
Present at the meeting were Sergeant George Walker and other CPD officers, who agreed on the need to balance informing residents about crime patterns and inducing unnecessary panic in the neighborhood...