Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even so, the experts advise older people not to panic and take themselves off medications they suspect might be causing side effects without first consulting their doctors. Some drugs can trigger withdrawal symptoms unless a person is gradually weaned from them. Nor should the study's conclusions be read as an indictment of all medications. Some conditions, such as depression, are actually undertreated in the elderly. Fortunately, many drugs are safe for older people to take. What is needed is a more judicious approach to their use and a better understanding, on the part of both physicians and of their...
...month. "Hopefully, we're helping dispel the myth that all 'girl bands' sound alike," singer-guitarist Louise Post said at a recent concert. The Fugees, an appealing reggae-rap trio, have a single that's climbing the Billboard charts. Madder Rose is touring to support its ravishing new CD, Panic On. Even vocalist Jenny Berggren of the cuddly Swedish pop band Ace of Base says she is "definitely going to do more" on her band's next CD. Berggren says she is writing some songs and won't sing just the ones written by her male bandmates...
Would he venture peace, threats, war? Would he last for years, six months, six weeks? At a press conference in Naples, Clinton said he saw no reason to panic. Though South Korean President Kim Young Sam had ordered his forces on emergency alert just in case, Clinton said he agreed with Washington's top brass that events had revealed "no evident alarming change" and that nothing ) so far warranted beefing up the 35,000 U.S. forces now stationed in the South. Asked what he thought of Kim Jong Il's prospects, however, the President admitted, "I don't know...
...clandestine campaign, they say, will involve poisoning water supplies, spreading diseases among the invaders and employing voodoo powders to "incinerate the skins" of enemy troops. "We have been told to fire on civilians when the Americans come," says amember of the paramilitary group FRAPH, "and then disappear in the panic...
...Suddenly the silence of the night was broken by the sound of an approaching military boat. At first the people on the sailboat froze in fear, hoping the patrol would pass. But when three shots rang out, the St. Joseph headed toward open water, its crew and passengers in panic. Rushing from one side to the other to get away from the gunfire, many people fell or were pushed overboard. Then, when the boat was a few hundred yards from shore, the sail's boom broke free and swept across the deck, knocking scores more into the sea. The four...