Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...setters heading to Cuba next week for the annual Havana Cigar Festival need not panic: although the home of the Cohiba banned smoking in enclosed public places on Feb. 7, festival venues will be exempt. Despite a lax kickoff in Cuba, similar bans in other countries have managed to clear...
...Everyone says the parent-teacher conference should be pleasant, civilized, a kind of dialogue where parents and teachers build alliances," Lawrence-Lightfoot observes. "But what most teachers feel, and certainly what all parents feel, is anxiety, panic and vulnerability." While teachers worry most about the parents they never see, the ones who show up faithfully pose a whole different set of challenges. Leaving aside the monster parents who seem to have been born to torment the teacher, even "good" parents can have bad days when their virtues exceed their boundaries: the eager parent who pushes too hard, the protective parent...
...high-traffic Lunar New Year holiday was received with dismay, especially since it meant canceling shipments of traditional holiday plants from the mainland. The city's Health Minister, Dr. York Chow, announced a 300-person search-and-destroy mission and advised the public not to panic, saying the fire ants were quite similar to a common local species, only "more aggressive ... [and they] bite harder...
...happy part of the movie. Things get darker as a real dirty truck bomb goes off in the city's center. There is far more devastation than the drill projected. The response is chaotic: workers are trapped in burning offices as rescue crews retreat from the radioactive zone. Panic ensues, and the heroism and derring-do that follow only remind us that the real time for lifesaving action ended long before...
...cartoon on the cover of the book, “Today’s Random Medical News from the New England Journal of Panic-Inducing Gobbledygook” by Cincinnati Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman, shows a newscaster at his desk with three multicolored wheels-of-fortune at the top of the screen. After pressing a button on the desk, the newscaster prepares to report the following random result: COFFEE can cause DEPRESSION in TWINS...