Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the news in Iraq is edited to reflect whatever message Saddam Hussein wants to convey, the people knew last week that they again faced the threat of war--brought on, they were told, by "a U.S. conspiracy." But there was no visible panic; the weary souls of Baghdad have been in this spot many times before. "These attacks are not strange to us. They are normal," said a city shopkeeper. "We know they hit military, not civilian targets," he added with a smile...
...Nino panic is in full bloom. It's been blamed for an invasion of Argentine ants in Southern California, for starving seabirds off Oregon, for albatrosses abandoning their nests in the Galapagos Islands. An Israeli scientist thinks El Nino irregularities occasioned the biblical famine that led to the Jews' entry into Egypt--thus offering the nice ecumenical touch of El Nino, Spanish for the Christ Child, accounting for Passover...
Throughout Another City, Not My Own, Dunne has threaded his personal story. After arriving in Los Angeles in the late 1950s, he led an A-list social life but was a B-list producer, making The Boys in the Band, The Panic in Needle Park and the Elizabeth Taylor flop Ash Wednesday. "I hated Nick in the old days," says Sue Mengers, the most powerful agent in Hollywood at the time. "I thought he was superficial and arrogant." Dunne would agree...
...diners (many of them already in a state of irritation from having had to shoulder their way past a mob of noisy Knuckleheads at the bar) that if the bozos in red suspenders across the room were in charge on Wall Street, the system had to be deeply flawed. Panic naturally followed...
...better, and it felt as lasting as you can get in this nanosecond trading world. I was able to scoop up some Dell Computer at 79 at 10 a.m. and flip it at 89 by 2:30. Same with Chevron and Microsoft. By 2:45 it was an upside panic. In fact, Intel triggered a frantic wave of buying simply by not denying a rumor, reported on CNBC, that it was about to announce a massive buyback. In fact, it has one already, but why knock a specious but positive report? In the closing hour I locked in profits from...