Word: panic
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...some trucks is a tracking device similar to the transponders used on commercial jets. The device beams a truck's location by satellite to fleet managers, while a two-way messaging system allows drivers and trucking officials to stay in touch. Qualcomm Inc. of San Diego offers truckers a panic button. When it's pushed, a ping sounds in the company's network management center, a NASA-style command base with 31 computer monitors. In an emergency, an operator can alert authorities to the location of the truck in distress...
...that Fox was parceled out and knocked around is hardly doing her perilous and nomadic childhood justice. Left at a Manhattan foundling home by a mother “panic-stricken and ungovernable in her haste to have done” with her newborn baby, and a father seemingly incapacitated by love and alcohol, Paula eventually found her way into the care of Reverend Elwood Corning, a loving and heroic Congregationalist minister in upstate New York. At the age of six, Paula’s parents resurfaced, sending for her from Hollywood, where her father, Paul Fox, was a small...
Shah Mohammed says he sent out an e-mail on the day of the attacks advising Muslims not to panic, but to take minor safety precautions...
...Lady Thatcher vs. Polly Panic...
...else he could be calculating that his own propaganda gains justify the risk. By confidently answering questions on a premier U.S. network six weeks after subjecting America to the biggest terrorist strike in world history - and at a time when Americans are in the grip of an anthrax panic that has even shut down part of their government - bin Laden may be trying to paint himself as invincible in order to deepen the despair of his enemies and rally his supporters...