Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush's defense, the current climate is different from anything Clinton and Rubin faced. The '98 panic was an overseas event that never did reach these shores. And let's not forget that the stock bubble inflated on Clinton and Rubin's watch. Bush and O'Neill are left to deal with the aftermath, and slowdowns that stem from burst bubbles are tough to fix. Ask the Japanese, who are still wrestling with the results of a market meltdown that began 12 years...
...then one of the geologists in my office yelled, “The south tower is falling!” With a rush of panic and adrenaline, I yelled to my friend on the phone, “I gotta go! The building’s falling!” and again to my mom, “I gotta go! The building’s falling...
...Pentagon been attacked, so had Camp David in Maryland, Pittsburgh and somewhere in Florida. Additionally, we heard that a car bomb had exploded outside the State Department in Washington. Obviously, we had no access to real-time information and the entire area was filled with a sense of panic and hysteria...
...looking to make sure somebody has a reason to buy, loosens its controls on companies buying back their own stock. But as pipe dreams of a patriot?s rally quickly went up in smoke, it became clear before long that this wasn?t going to be a coward?s panic either. The losses stabilized by late morning and actually bounced a bit off their lows before slipping again in later afternoon and then bouncing again. The final tally: The Dow down 677 points, the NASDAQ down 115 - and it did seem as if the involuntary four-day layoff didn...
...scene so that they might be set up to record the vivid surreal bloom of the second strike ("Am I seeing this?") and then--could they be such engineering geniuses, so deft at demolition?--the catastrophic collapse of the two towers, one after the other, and a sequence of panic in the streets that might have been shot for a remake of The War of the Worlds or for Independence Day. Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which is why, in an era of gaudy and gifted media, evil may vastly magnify its damage by the power of horrific images...