Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true that the Europeans and Japanese import more gulf oil than the U.S. does. But oil is fungible, and the U.S. imports almost half its oil. Were the gulf shut down, our allies would have to get it + elsewhere, thus bidding up the price. If this resulted in a panic, as happened in the oil shock of 1979, all oil importers, including the U.S., would be badly damaged...
...television pilot for a prime-time series. I left the taping at 4 o'clock this morning your time, chartered a plane and flew all morning to get here by 10. So I just want to tell you, if I fall asleep, don't worry, don't panic and don't disturb...
...scheme to divert funds from the Iranian arms sales to the contras. On the following Tuesday, Hall was startled to find NSC officials boxing up North's papers. To her horror, she realized that the false documents were still on her desk and were about to be discovered. In panic, she called North at a hotel and whispered for him to return to the office. "I was very emotional at the time," she told the committee. Hall frantically stuffed some of the papers into her boots. She ran upstairs in the two-floor suite to get Earl's help...
...bearable once again for Americans to go to supermarkets and shopping malls. But that was not the only reason moneymen around the world slept more restfully knowing Volcker was in charge. He was a crisis manager extraordinaire, a five-star monetary marshal who helped save the financial system from panic when it was threatened by Mexico's debt crisis in 1982 and Continental Illinois bank's near collapse...
...scientists of a second AIDS virus in West Africa, which is now being found in Europe and Brazil, this increases the family of related AIDS viruses. The existence of multiple strains further complicates the development of blood tests and vaccines for AIDS. Gallo insisted, however, that "we shouldn't panic because it is the original AIDS virus that is causing the epidemic...