Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last-minute panic before the referendum, the French government sent copies of Maastricht to all 38 million voters -- a maneuver that may have hurt as much as helped. "The text was incomprehensible," said Guy Bechon, 56, principal of Cognac's Jean Monnet High School. A stocky fellow with a doctorate in physics, he nonetheless voted for the treaty "because I did not want my children to face a future of isolationism. Perhaps we must lose a little of our originality in order to progress." But Bechon would not go so far as Monnet, who hoped that transcending nationalism would "liberate...
America's structural burdens have hit home most profoundly in terms of jobs. The U.S. workplace is "in a profound, historic state of turmoil that for millions of individuals is approaching panic," according to labor consultant Dan Lacey, publisher of the newsletter Workplace Trends. Official statistics fail to reveal the extent of the pain. Unemployment stands at 7.6%, far lower than the 1982 high of 10.8%, but more people are experiencing distress. A comprehensive tally would include workers who are employed well below their skill level, those who cannot find more than a part-time job, people earning poverty-level...
...sounder buildings; city planners can guide development in ways that reduce hazards. It's quite another thing to sound the alarm for an earthquake less than a minute away. Such early-warning systems are technically feasible, though there is debate about whether they would save lives or promote panic...
...Panic at First Bite...
...Southeast. Government scientists announced last month that a group of these mosquitoes in Florida had been found to be carrying the virus for Eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but often fatal brain disease. Only 11 Floridians have caught this disease, and health officials see no reason for panic, but mosquito control has taken on a new urgency...