Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lingering, bar-hopping smokers need not panic--the bill still allows for smoking in bars. The smallest bars have no restrictions at all. Bars would clearly be the biggest losers of revenue under a total ban, as they were in Brookline recently. As a result, CUSP remains sympathetic to them. Ideally we would like to see a total ban, but reality and economics tell us that a ban on smoking in bars would hurt what little bar scene remains in Cambridge...
...four of them Americans, rushed up to the front desk. ``Where is Room 16?'' one demanded. A hotel clerk pointed the way, and the posse ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. When Ali Mohammad opened it, they burst in. ``It was like a hurricane, a big panic,'' said Khalid Sheikh, a Karachi businessman who was staying in a room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands and legs bound, and was shouting, `I'm innocent; why are you taking me?' and `Show me the arrest warrant...
Government sources had hinted for weeks that Zedillo would undertake some strong action to try to rebuild credibility after the peso's disastrous devaluation. That the Zapatistas should be the target was logical: their activity inspired the erosion in investor confidence that ultimately led to financial panic. But Zedillo's evidence for a spreading Zapatista insurrection was sketchy. Arms caches that authorities discovered held little more than a handful of firearms and several dozen grenades...
Right now ALVINN is barely a student driver. Small but unexpected events cause him to swerve and shake in gigabyte panic. His performance may improve this month when ``smart car'' map scanning is integrated into the programming. ``There should be a substantial difference,'' promises Pomerleau. The researchers say they are only a couple of years from achieving a preliminary goal, perfecting ALVINN as an anticollision device to jog sleepy drivers before they run off the road. When a car drifts dangerously close to the border of its lane, a road-watching camera would do something like ring an alarm bell...
...Banco Latino closure sparked runs on other banks. In an effort to quell the panic, the government pumped $3 billion into eight troubled financial institutions--a policy that many analysts believe helped expand the crisis. In June 1994 all the subsidized banks were declared insolvent and closed down; none reopened. Some of the rescue money was used to pay off depositors, whose savings accounts were insured up to $23,000, but much of it simply disappeared. William Davila, vice president of Venezuela's Senate finance committee, charges that bank managers loaned themselves the money and shipped it to overseas accounts...