Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if there turns out to be a new virus, people should have no reason to panic or refuse blood transfusions. Researchers think they can isolate the pathogen within months and develop a blood test. In the meantime, this unusual type of AIDS, whatever causes it, is very rare. Said Laurence: "Every major AIDS researcher is here in one place in one room, and still we're talking about only a handful of cases...
...part, Bush urges Republicans not to panic, reminding them that he was 17 points behind Dukakis at this juncture in 1988. One difference, however, is that Bush in 1988 could run on the rosy-looking Reagan economic record. Another difference, says a veteran of the 1988 campaign, was that "at least we had 'no new taxes' " as a central, positive appeal. This time there is a vacuum at the heart of the Bush campaign and Administration. That is what allows Clinton and Gore to dominate the television news and set the political agenda, at least for now. It is also...
Manuel Munoz '94, who teaches Spanish, saysthat he has learned "not to panic and keep yourcool" when lesson plans fail to capture theimagination of his students...
...safety: in 1989 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration limited workplace exposure to more than 400 toxic substances. But OSHA didn't make a separate case for each, as the law requires. Though that would have taken decades, an Atlanta court said the limits are invalid. Workers shouldn't panic: it's unlikely that companies that have spent millions to comply with osha's standards will now spend even more to have safeguards removed...
...Boudiaf may have thought he was merely making a philosophical point in his address to a crowd at a cultural center in the Mediterranean port city of Annaba. It was his first trip outside Algiers since he took office after a military coup in January. In the confusion and panic that followed, 41 other people were wounded by gunfire and grenades...