Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When the director of the zoo [Manuel Mollinedo] came to the emergency room, in such a panic, I said, 'Look, this is all we want from you. We don't want you to do any sensationalized press and we want you to move the animal into quarantine, because if what you said is true, that he's mild mannered, we need to find out if it's a medical reason why it's not mild mannered today. We need you to keep this animal in quarantine for the duration of Phil's recovery in case something should happen...
...guerrilla attack on the small red-roofed town of Aracinovo on the outskirts of the capital earlier this month stirred panic in Skopje, emptying the streets and causing NATO to rethink its approach to the conflict. But every pundit and newspaper hawker in Skopje had for months predicted a rebel attempt on Aracinovo. "How much would it have taken to secure the town with a few detachments of police troops, backed up by forces at the nearby airport," asks a local analyst. Government ineptitude has spawned conspiracy theories, including the suggestion that Prime Minister Georgievski actually wanted to lose Aracinovo...
...precipitated a constitutional and societal crisis in an already fragile democracy. "If the King himself has been deprived of justice," asks rickshaw puller Buta Misir, "then what can we poor people expect?" In Kathmandu over the weekend, agitated crowds gathered around the palace, and there were reports of panic buying of staple foods and gasoline. During the royal funeral procession, grieving citizens stoned the Prime Minister and other government officials, blaming them for not doing enough to protect the King...
...broadcast news. "Sony and Panasonic are like ocean liners. They turn, but they turn slowly," says Joseph Bentivegna, an Avid vice president. "By staying nimble, we've been able to keep ahead." For example, when actor Oliver Reed died during the filming of Gladiator, director Ridley Scott didn't panic. His team recycled shots of the slave trainer and, with the help of Avid software, produced two scenes starring Reed...
...questions they asked the scientists to answer. These came from a group of people who'd been out of power for a long time, and suspected that while they were out of power a left-wing conspiracy had sought to take control of energy policy by whipping up a panic based on false science - they clearly believed that asking these questions to their own scientists would disprove the claims of those calling for action on global warming, and so they went to the National Academy of Sciences with questions framed to give them the answers that they wanted to hear...