Word: panic
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...last year's bathing suit and, above all, counting down the days. But escaping can be stressful. A survey published this week by the British recruitment firm Reed found that 22% of 5,000 British workers said they suffer a syndrome Reed calls "Pre-Holiday Stress," that sense of panic caused by trying to get everything in order before leaving. U.K. workers put in an average of nine hours extra trying to do this. Only 40% said they would take their full vacation entitlement, 10% fewer than last year - although there could be many reasons for that, which might...
...stunts, gun battles and helicopter crashes? There were none. Throughout the movie's entire 119 minutes, none of the five main characters even held a gun. When a lunatic actually pulled a pistol in the station house, the whole joint?of cops, mind you?practically cleared out in a panic...
...Beverly Hills cancer scare erupted in February, after Brockovich's firm alerted the local CBS-TV affiliate that she'd soon be filing suit. The resulting two-part TV series caused widespread concern, if not panic, among Beverly Hills high school students, parents and graduates. Six hundred people attended a meeting hosted by Brockovich at the posh Beverly Hills Hotel to recruit potential litigants, who were asked to fill out questionnaires to document their illnesses. Armed with these data, Brockovich charged that emissions of benzene, toluene n-hexane and other substances on the high school campus have caused 300 cases...
Armstrong has always had an easy ride to Paris because he's never faced real climbers. If we can get him in a trap, we can make him panic. - GILBERTO SIMONI, Italian cyclist
...last Tour because of a drug suspension that was later overturned, promises to be another contender. "[Armstrong] has always had an easy ride to Paris because he's never faced real climbers," said Simoni. "If we can get him in a trap, we can make him panic." Overcoming obstacles - that's what the French like to see a rider doing, and what Armstrong happens to be very good...