Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was no panic on the bench," Tomassoni said. "The kids knew that even though they had been snake-bitten through the first two periods that they were going to come back. You could just sense that...
Then last week Japan tried the unthinkable: regulators let a prominent yet insolvent bank, Hokkaido Takushoku, go bust. Instead of a panic, Japan's Western-style measure elicited a Western-style response: stocks surged 11% in two days. Imagine the rally if they had killed a bigger bank. Investors in the U.S. aren't strangers to the perversity of free markets. How many times have you seen a company so down that it says it must shed thousands of jobs, and the stock zooms? So ingrained is this convoluted logic that the mere appointment of a CEO known for tough...
...deer, the full-size antlered stag I saw the other day at dusk, as I was walking down the main street of our village. Suddenly he stepped out of a driveway, looked about to panic, saw it was only me and trotted, head high, down the center of the street...
...equivalent are misguided. Your article relates how mystifying the market plunge is in terms of either the current economy or any reasonable predictions about it. The U.S. markets are the playground of the securities-exchange members. The small traders, even those with online access, did not participate in the panic; only the members on the floor did. To ask "What is the market telling us about the economy?" is to ignore your own analysis. JACK REPENNING Santa Clara, Calif...
...Will you promise to marry me?'" Collopy told Britain's Sky News. "He said that a few times." She said her marriage ended after her husband taped her telephone calls and heard her say "I love you" to Spencer. Just before the divorce, however, Spencer had "a panic attack" and told her he couldn't offer her a future. Collopy is testifying on Lockwood's behalf...