Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Studios admit that attacking the cost of top talent will be next to impossible. "The weakest studio sets the marketplace," Chernin says. "Whoever is the most panic- driven will hike up the costs." Instead, they will set their sights on mid-level stars without a proven ability to attract crowds. "Michael Keaton (Multiplicity) or Alec Baldwin (Heaven's Prisoners)--they better deliver the goods," says a studio chief...
...there will be ample opportunity to devise an integration strategy that the state's citizens can live with. More than likely, both sides agree, the eventual solution will emphasize voluntary programs such as cross-district transfers and magnet schools that will benefit all students. There was no reason for panic--though state officials' heated rhetoric threatened to produce some...
...smacking gulp and pronounced it "D.C.'s finest." Citizens were, of course, happy to see that the mayor was drinking nothing stronger than water, but wondered what could be impairing his judgment so severely that he blamed the media and his very own health commissioner for the water panic--not the fact that tests had found unacceptably high levels of bacteria in more than 10% of the samples. After criticism from the mayor, the commissioner lifted the advisory, saying it was based on "outdated information," but then dumped a gazillion gallons of chlorine into the pipes--just in case. Officials...
PLAGUE. In 1994 a long monsoon in northern India followed by 90 consecutive days of 100[degrees]F heat drove rats into the cities. In Surat, they caused an outbreak of pneumonic plague. The ensuing panic killed 63 people and ultimately cost India $2 billion...
...that Begin was as hawkish as Netanyahu seems to be. It was after all Begin who signed the first peace agreement with Egypt--he was the one who gave up the entire Sinai. So let's not start coming out with statements of fear; there is no reason to panic. For me, it's not a matter of personalities, it's a matter of principle. I am for the peace process; it will continue because it must continue...