Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This Crimson finds you in the excitement and panic of a new semester. Between shopping classes, waiting in line at the Coop, getting back last semester's grades and perhaps switching rooms with your suitemate, the Undergraduate Council's work on your behalf this past semester may not immediately come to mind. But as we move on to the next term, it is worthwhile to consider the student advocacy-and-service organization that last fall renewed its commitment to you. The Council operated on two very basic goals from which it had strayed in the past: relevance and effectiveness. What...
Moving to assuage panic about the redesign of the $100 note, a U.S. Treasury Department spokesman held a news conference--in Moscow. Jittery Russian savers, oft burned by the unstable ruble and corrupt banks, hold $15 billion in U.S. cash, most in $100 bills, and up to $200 million in greenbacks is flown to Russia daily to meet demand. Despite U.S. assurance that old notes will be valid "forever," Russians are expected to race to exchange their old notes as soon as the new ones are released next month...
There is a double-jointed consciousness at work in the dramatics of big weather. Down in the snowstorm, we are as mortal as the deer. I sink to my waist in a drift, I panic, my arms claw for an instant, like a drowning swimmer's, in the powder. Men up and down the storm collapse with coronaries, snow shovels in their hands, cheeks gone a deathly color, like frostbitten plums...
...told us a lot about how people with anxiety disorders process information," Schacter said. "He's a wide-ranging scholar. He wrote a terrific book on panic disorders, which is one of the leading texts in the field...
...There was no panic on the bench," Tomassoni said. "[Poise] is an important thing for any team, particularly for a younger team, was real pleased...