Word: panic
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...looks as if environmental and consumer activists aren't the only ones feeling nervous about the genetically modified (GM) crops currently sprouting from American soil. On Wednesday, hoping to stave off a European-style anti-GM panic, the Clinton administration announced a laundry list of procedures designed to make Americans a bit more comfortable in the presence of so-called "Frankenfoods." The proposed changes will establish government oversight with regard to labeling foods made with genetically altered crops (including an industry-opposed measure to label products as GM-free); allow the Food and Drug Administration a four-month lead time...
...Regardless of that possibility we need a Priority One response--particularly the panic alarms," she adds...
Harvard's problem is not unique. New technology that makes alarms more sensitive and easier to install has led to an explosion of burglar alarms, motion detectors and panic alarms nationwide--and with it has come an explosion of false alarms...
...have shown that unusual volatility is as likely to precede a sharp run-up as a sharp decline. If you're invested for the long haul, why put yourself through the agony of watching short-term declines--especially ones as steep as last Friday's--that tempt you to panic? I don't mean to pick on CNBC. But it's the market leader in televised stock talk, and when the market is sinking, the anchors' grim faces and funereal tones only quicken your despair. Once weaned from hourly updates, you'll find it easier to hold fast to proven...
Just when you thought it was safe to back into the market, someone caused quite a panic on Wall Street Monday by leaking the Justice Department's proposed remedy in the Microsoft antitrust trial to the press this weekend. The reported remedy introduces a new wrinkle to the whole matter: that Microsoft be strictly controlled during the appeals process. This follows talk that any remedy handed down by the court after the years it will take to sort our the appeals would be made moot by advances in technology. According to reports in three major newspapers Monday morning, the Justice...