Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...testify before a grand jury about my daughter Courtney. Or, God forbid, vice versa. Courtney's led a fairly blameless life, after all. But oh, the things she's seen on my end: the excuse-making, the nightgown under the trench coat to drive the car pool, the panic every time I see a gray hair--and that's just the small stuff...
...economy. Hashimoto delivered a State of the Union parliamentary address that was unique in its brevity and laserlike in its focus on emergency measures to stimulate growth and reinforce sagging financial institutions. "It is my unwavering determination," he declared, "to avoid at all costs a worldwide financial or economic panic originating in Japan." The Japanese financial markets gagged on that plea for confidence, plunging to their lowest levels in more than two years. Hashimoto's public-approval rating wasn't far behind. To make matters worse, the powerful Ministry of Finance widened the credibility gap by announcing on the same...
...book royalty failed to arrive in September, and from a "miscalculation" that he would get a couple of teaching jobs. "People have said that I do nothing until things get out of hand," says Eighner. "But what they don't see is the number of times I did not panic and the check did arrive in time...
...worse than the act itself--the not knowing." Only when her best female friend is also dumped does Jane begin to sense that it's the bulls, not the cows, who have the greater problem, giving rise to her bovine theory of "why men flip-flop from passion to panic until they finally disappear." Just as the Cow device begins to wear thin and vengeful excess looms, Zigman reigns in her prickly impulses and serves up an ending that feels cathartic and true...
...phone as translators relayed Clinton's demand that Suharto immediately implement an International Monetary Fund austerity program that Indonesia agreed to last October. Earlier, Suharto had seemed oblivious to the crisis when he went on television to announce a budget woven of pure fantasy, thereby setting off panic. The job of leaning on Indonesia now falls to Deputy Treasury Secretary LARRY SUMMERS and Defense Secretary WILLIAM COHEN, who both visit Jakarta and other Asian capitals this week, along with a senior IMF delegation. If Suharto falls into line, the IMF could accelerate the release of $3 billion in additional funds...