Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sell-Off in Indonesia Questions about an IMF bailout prompt panic in the streets of Jakarta. But the Clinton Administration says the plan is sound...
There was panic selling in the streets of Indonesia Thursday as international officials reacted to the possibility that Indonesia may default on its IMF loans. The rupiah lost 26 percent of its value in one day and the Jakarta Composite sank 19 percent at one point before recovering modestly to end the day down 11.95 percent...
Clinton Calms Indonesia A 20-minute phone call by President Clinton to President Suharto appears to have calmed the panic that yesterday sent Indonesia?s currency and stock market tumbling. Elsewhere in Asia, however, the picture looked grim...
...Officials are struggling to prevent panic in a city that has had to abruptly forsake its favorite meal. A fact sheet on the disease is now distributed to tourists and special government clinics have been established for testing and treatment. One thing, though, about the operation that will employ 2,200 government workers and cost $40 million in reimbursement to farmers and vendors: it had better work...
Still, it was a good year to clone sheep, but pictures of the identical woolly faces of Scotland's Dolly whipped up a public panic of their own. President Clinton leaped to the task of devising cloning regulations, and Congress held hearings. Public imaginations abetted public nerves as one envisioned an NBA populated by Michael Jordans, a music world consisting of multiple John Teshes, and sheep of the ideological variety. Meanwhile, at the other end of the barnyard, the discovery of mad-cow disease (a more colorful, thus emotionally agitating term than bovine spongiform encephalopathy) had real men ordering sushi...