Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't panic at all at the time," Clinesaid. "But afterward, I was very shaken...
When the woman decides she has had enough, she may move out or demand that her partner leave. But "the men sometimes panic about losing ((their women)) and will do anything to prevent it from happening," says Deborah Burk, an Atlanta prosecutor. To combat feelings of helplessness and powerlessness, the man may stalk the woman or harass her by phone...
Haitian military police fired Wednesday on a 60-foot sailboat full of refugees trying to take to sea, setting off a panic in which at least 30 people were drowned. Witnesses offered TIME correspondent Edward J. Barnes the first verified report that Haitian authorities have fired on refugees attempting to flee. At about 1 a.m., Barnes was told, a Haitian police launch approached the ship at Nan L'Etat, off Haiti's southern coast, surprising a boatload of refugees drawn from about 400 waiting in surrounding coves and hillsides for passage to America. "At first, local villagers say, the boat...
...government could only muster contradictory signals and empty gestures in response to the invasion panic. Jonassaint's state of emergency was roundly dismissed as a national joke when the military failed even to declare a curfew. Derision turned to surprise when, in a city where nothing works, pothole-repair crews and street cleaners suddenly made an appearance along several main streets in Port-au-Prince -- presumably to demonstrate, however peripherally, that the government is capable of doing something...
...hard hit," says Maaz. "This happens at a time / when their life experience and competence should be most valued. But because that experience comes from the earlier ((communist)) period, it is devalued." The resulting life crisis, he says, manifests itself in everything from vague aches and pains to depression, panic attacks, accidental trauma and, ultimately, suicide. "We often see family violence, child abuse and car accidents," he says. "It's easier to take out your aggression on a neighbor, your spouse or your children. And driving fast or carelessly makes people feel powerful." Those most at risk for early death...