Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...control your hubris, at least control your panic. What did Canton hope to gain by phoning the editor of Variety and ranting about the show-business paper's negative review of Last Action Hero? Columbia executives, crazed with anxiety in their corporate bunker, were peeved when the Los Angeles Times published a free-lance writer's lighthearted, thinly sourced account of a preview screening that the studio plausibly insists never occurred. But did they have to throw an embarrassing, no-win tantrum? Unless the newspaper agreed to keep the reporter from mentioning Columbia Pictures ever again, the studio said...
...Holland and Lincoln tunnels under the Hudson River, crushing motorists inside cars turned to twisted junk, killing many more by spreading intense heat, smoke and noxious fumes throughout the enclosed space of the tubes. Thousands dead, thousands more injured, the nation's biggest city in a wild panic...
...misunderstand. There is still a nuclear problem. There are environmental problems. But there is a difference between a problem and panic. The next time you find yourself in the midst of some national hysteria, remember the tulip craze that swept Holland three centuries ago, an orgy of panicked financial speculation in which land and houses and gold were all traded for . . . tulips. At the mania's peak, a single Semper Augustus tulip could fetch 20 town houses...
...come. Doctors must reshape John Paul's heart in time to keep up with his growth. Cisneros dreads explaining to him what lies ahead. "I couldn't bear his questions," he says. "Nothing in my life has prepared me for this. Nothing could rival the sense of total panic that comes over me when I think of this surgery...
Like Schwartz, millions of Americans may be ready to switch from impulse buying to panic saving, driven in part by fear of layoffs. That turnabout would be rich in irony. After years of being exhorted to save money and reduce debt, consumers who finally do that are likely to find their newfound thrift hobbling the recovery...