Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it will take a long time before we have final proof," Maria Feychting says. But even if the link holds up, she notes, people should not panic: "The risk for leukemia is very small -- 1 out of 20,000 children a year." Reacting too hastily to scientific findings can in itself be hazardous to one's health. Witness the realization that more people may be exposed to asbestos during its removal than if it is merely encased. As for electromagnetic radiation, prudence would suggest that the ideal location for a new day-care center is not next to city...
...sent Cairo residents scrambling into the streets. As casualty reports flowed in from the capital and outlying provinces, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak hastily interrupted a trip to China. Egyptian officials estimate that more than 500 people have been killed and 6,500 injured. Many dazed residents remained so panic stricken that they spent the rest of the week camping out of doors...
DARK MEANINGS still reverberate like distant thunder from the last millennial passage. There was no widespread panic at the approach of the year 1000, as some writers have claimed, but an inescapable note of Armageddon was in the air. Men pondered over the text of the last days in the book of Revelation: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea" (Revelation...
Thus there was little panic, not even much interest, as the millennium approached in the final months of 999. For what terrors could the apocalypse hold for a continent that was already shrouded in darkness? Rather Europe -- illiterate, diseased and hungry -- seemed grimly resigned to desperation and impoverishment. It was one of the planet's most unpromising corners, the Third World...
Before the vote, Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Panic had asked the Assembly to hold off the expulsion to give him some leverage in his power struggle with "militant nationalists" in Belgrade. Diplomats said they accepted Panic's good intentions but doubted his ability to deliver...