Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afternoon ended damply. Around 4 p.m. in the afternoon, the same time major races started, it began to rain. Traffic congestion and panic were the immediate results of the downpour, as cars poured out of a newly sodden Cambridge
...more are crammed into a tight time frame -- the prime-time hours during which a new network is presenting an extravagant premiere broadcast featuring all its stars and programs. The movie wants to show us the frenzy of such an enterprise, bring everyone involved as close as possible to panic but not in itself succumb to breakdown. This is a feat that has always interested George Lucas, who wrote the original story and is the executive producer. As we know from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, he loves multilevel, multicharacter, broadly played popular fiction edited at a pace...
...following day, after the central bank intervened, the ruble rebounded, and by week's end had climbed back to 2,988 to the dollar. To some extent the panic-fueled plunge reflected the gap between the Yeltsin government's promise of radical economic reform and its performance, as well as its persistence in printing rubles to subsidize ailing state industries and farms...
...problems underlying the currency panic...
...carrier George Washington to the Persian Gulf region. In London the British Defense Ministry announced that it was sending an extra frigate to patrol the waters off Kuwait. But the Baghdad government defended Iraq's right to move troops within its own borders, and there were no signs of panic in Kuwait...