Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard went in fairly relaxed. Still, there were anxious moments. During the weeks between Eastern Sprints and the Nationals, the team had put on some weight--enough to create panic as weigh-ins approached. (Lightweight crews must have an average weight of 155 pounds and no member may weigh more 160.) The team needed to lose weight fast, and breakfasts of Special K weren't going to do the trick...
...even come to like the snow. Sure, blizzards in May are a tad excessive, but at least when it snows, enough of the white stuff sticks around to turn the campus into a gorgeous winter wonderland. (In Seattle, a few inches fall, the entire city shuts down in panic and by the next day, it all turns to grey slush...
Generally, the day has gone well. "It was a very good reading," says Seinfeld. "This is when most other shows go into the panic mode." David is not quite so confident. "Actually," he says, "I was a little disappointed." Maybe it's the Saturday-afternoon blahs, he muses. "I'll have to see it on its feet...
Tony Snow hit the nail on the head in an oped piece in the Boston Globe on September 11 when he wrote: "The asbestos panic, started by sloppy science and spread by gullible journalists, has gone far enough." The Crimson would better its readership and the University community by balancing its reporting with a little research...
...atmosphere in some parts of the country and on Capitol Hill has been near panic. I've done everything I could to stem that attitude. We are really the victims in many ways of instant communications, instant polling. That has a purpose, but we need to be steadier, and have a longer view of American interests. That more than anything has kept me awake...