Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BUCHANAN ROSE IN THE POLLS IN IOWA, the Dole campaign began to panic--and to plot. It quietly added some new and pointed questions to its routine polling. Its telephone polltakers began asking hundreds of voters in New Hampshire whether they would be more or less inclined to vote for Buchanan if they knew he once said that women lacked "ambition and the will to succeed," and that South Korea, Taiwan and Japan should be armed with nuclear weapons. More than 70% of those polled said they would be less likely to vote for Buchanan. Thus a campaign was born...
...executives are too wimpy and stupid to be believed. In one scene, Leno eavesdrops on a speakerphone conversation between network executives discussing his fate. Later he phones program chief Warren Littlefield (Bob Balaban) to reveal what he knows. Littlefield, who takes the call on the toilet, jumps up in panic. Showing a network executive with his pants around his ankles may get a cheap laugh, but is this any way for a grownup movie...
...will remember New Hampshire this weekend and not panic during the second half," Proudfit said...
...team does not panic, then the Crimson can turn a mediocre pre-Ivy season into a rout of Ivy League opponents and an NCAA Tournament...
...panic over hoaxes. Remember that viruses can only be sent through software, and that you can't get viruses just by reading e-mail. If you get a hoax e-mail, let the sender know that they're passing on false rumors--or at the very least, don't pass the rumor...