Word: panic
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Sophisticated investors are well aware of the opportunities presented by the current volatility. For example, amid the recent panic, the yields available on the corporate bonds of some companies with good prospects have shot up alongside those of weaker firms. Many investors who had stayed on the sidelines for some time, given the lofty valuations of stocks and corporate bonds, have now begun to take the opportunity to add selectively to their portfolios. It is likely that market turbulence will continue to test the discernment and fortitude of investors. Whether and how quickly the large pools of Asian capital rise...
...solutions. The general comes to this moment more optimistic than the ambassador, which is why Crocker should be listened to more closely. When I asked Crocker directly, "What do we do now?" he laughed and said, "Well, I always say, 'When they're coming over the wire ... don't panic.'" Someone needs to ask him that same question under oath...
...Perhaps the life review is the brain frantically scanning its memory banks for a way out of this crisis. The images of a bright light and tunnel could be due to impairment at the rear and sides of the brain respectively, while the euphoria may be a neurochemical anti-panic mechanism triggered by extreme danger...
...indicated that 47% of Moroccans would vote for Morocco's Islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD). That 47% turns out to be a curiously recurrent statistic. In 1991, the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front won the first round of elections with 47%, an outcome that plunged the military into panic and the country into a bloody civil war. This July, Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) was victorious in parliamentary elections, winning 47% of the vote. While the Turkish generals are uneasy with the akp's success, there's no reason to think that its rise will lead...
...their decision to continue the campaign despite her cancer's recurrence, that he is accused of being power-hungry and she of playing the victim card. Elizabeth explains the decision in the new chapter. After her biopsy results came back, she writes, she burst into tears "from panic at the thought that this cancer might take him out of the race. It might have seemed odd to someone who had not spent years in this fight, but this was his life and mine...