Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Belgrade, Gen. Zivota Panic, acting head of the federal general staff, said the army would not withdraw from the republic and warned: "We are closer to war than peace...
...with Orson Welles' Halloween 1938 broadcast of "War of The Worlds," panic erupted in some quarters before listeners realized it was all an April Fool's Day joke...
...memorandum, Radcliffe Facilities also outlines security proce- dures around the area of the assault, includingthe use of a panic button in the Lyman Common Roomand the blue "emergency" telephones positioned inseveral locations...
...dollar reserves as well as other hard currencies to prop up the ruble. Its commercial exchange rate stood at 70 to the dollar last week, improved from 114 to the dollar the week before. Rumors that authorities may act to strengthen the ruble further have spread waves of panic buying, with Russians forming two-hour lines at banks to turn in dollars for their homegrown currency. At many banks last week, people found to their dismay that rubles were virtually unavailable...
...million people in this de facto Kurdistan between Turkey and Iraq, their painful success contains more irony than victory. A year after they fled in panic from their traditional homes into the snowy mountain passes, they are still living in hunger and cold, their survival dependent on aid from abroad. They are safe from attack only because the victors of the gulf war have warned the Iraqi military to keep its distance. U.S. and British jets regularly roar low over the region to remind Iraqi soldiers that they are being watched. "When I don't hear the sound...