Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that he had not wept at his own father's death, but he was weeping today. Say what? But this is the way the whole year of 1997 has gone. Every few weeks in the past 12 months, something happened to invite an emotional public reaction of mass grief, panic or elation, often wildly disproportional to the significance of the event. Most of these eruptions had little staying power, but for the moments of their blazing they were huge, sometimes frightening...
Stories that make the times we live in sound like the ancien regime or the final days of Rome ought to be told gradually. Otherwise, people panic. They begin to think they can hear Madame Defarge's knitting needles clicking as head after head tumbles into the basket below the guillotine. So, writing from Manhattan, I'm going to begin by telling you folks in the rest of the country simply that, according to a story in the New York Times by Monique P. Yazigi, apartments in so-called A+ buildings on Fifth Avenue are now selling for what real...
...them eat cake" might sound like if translated into Upper East Side real estate talk, try to forget it. Dwell on something comforting--the fact, for instance, that the maintenance in an A+ building can often be expressed as something in the teen thousands. Whatever you do, don't panic...
...just failed a test, managing to convince her that it's not such a big deal. Later, you read over his shoulder as he writes an e-mail to a high school buddy about the things he likes and dislikes about this semester, and you watch him suddenly panic when the phone rings and he finds out that his sister was in a car accident (but only broke...
...worsen an already panicky situation, says Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Harvard Institute for International Development. In Thailand the IMF plan required the government to close 58 financial institutions. When that became known, "the panic intensified," Sachs says. "Rather than restoring confidence, the IMF's intervention merely confirmed to investors that they were right to flee." Meanwhile, financial institutions that will be closed because they cannot satisfy strict standards of reserve capital will have their assets, mainly foolhardy real estate developments, auctioned off. But that massive sell-off could lead to a sharp fall in values that will affect...