Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business is pretty good these days. In the Denver suburb of Commerce City, where gun shoppers graze the warehouse aisles, you can buy a .22-cal. pistol for just $70. Granted, prices are down from a year ago, when passage of the Brady Law led to a surge of panic buying. But it's because of Brady that business is also done a little differently now--most gun dealers are frequently on the phone, calling state agents for a background check on every would-be purchaser. Not all the gun dealers, however. At the sales tables of unlicensed sellers like...
President Clinton used his emergency powers to craft an economic rescue package for Mexico intended to avert the possibility of loan defaults that could ignite financial panic throughout the hemisphere. The President thus neatly bypassed congressional opposition to his original proposal of $40 billion in loan guarantees. Despite some grumbling on Capitol Hill, the President's move received support from both the Republican and Democratic leadership (and a sigh of relief from many members happy to be freed from having to vote on a controversial aid package). For the most part, Mexican financial markets reacted favorably to the President...
President Clinton used his emergency powers to craft an economic-rescue package for Mexico intended to avert the possibility of loan defaults that could ignite financial panic throughout the hemisphere. The President thus neatly bypassed U.S. congressional opposition to his original proposal of $40 billion in loan guarantees. Despite some grumbling on Washington's Capitol Hill, the President's move received support from both the Republican and Democratic leadership (and a sigh of relief from many members happy to be freed from having to vote on a controversial aid package). For the most part, Mexican financial markets reacted favorably...
...more than 200 companies to contact an accompanying list of freshmen Republicans and push for support. Rubin and other officials began telephoning reporters and editors with spin. No one disputed that the stakes are high. Treasury's Rubin argued that if the loan guarantees were defeated, financial markets would panic in Mexico and in other emerging countries. ``You have the prospect of very serious ramifications in Mexico,'' he told Time on Friday, ``and because of the role that Mexico has had as a prototype with respect to developing countries, the very real prospect of spillover into other countries...
...hand to meet some of them on the Russian border of Chechnya was Grachev. In a meeting with reporters, he seemed on the defensive, denying he was in a panic to take Grozny. "Have I been telling you about a blitzkrieg?" he asked. "This I certainly never did." On the contrary, said Grachev, rushing the campaign in Chechnya "would only lead to heavy personnel losses." Besides, he said, the President had decreed that an effort be made to limit civilian casualties, so the army was refraining from "using indiscriminately all the firepower we have...