Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Panic spread at two New York City schools last summer when parents refused to send their children to class because one child with AIDS was allowed to continue his studies at a public school. The two local schools eventually sued the New York Board of Education, which permitted the AIDS-stricken child to attend class...
AIDS HAS NEVER been just a medical issue. Whether policy-makers have responded to an actual threat or merely to a public panic, their legislative efforts to safeguard against the virus have sometimes resulted in discriminatory laws...
...Washington, and the money moves very quickly," says Peter Teeley, former press aide to Vice President George Bush and now a Washington p.r. man. "Some people are getting ripped off." Says Senator Pryor: "Businessmen are very, very naive. It's amazing what they pay these lobbyists. The businessmen panic. They really don't understand Washington...
...previously unopened bottle purchased a week earlier by his mother. Twelve hours later, the stenographer, daughter of a New York State trooper, was found dead of what was later diagnosed as acute cyanide poisoning. Her death touched off a new scare, reminiscent of the still unsolved Tylenol panic of 1982, in which seven people in the Chicago area died after taking tainted capsules. Once again the capsule form of the leading nonprescription pain-relief medicine in the U.S. was stripped from store shelves across the nation as Tylenol's manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, offered a $100,000 reward for help...
...Gerald Meyers, former chairman of American Motors, who teaches a course in crisis management at Carnegie-Mellon University: "The most frequently made mistake is denial, and it's the biggest one you can make. Denial then gives way to anger. When the crisis doesn't go away quickly, the panic sets in." Agrees Donald Deaton, a senior vice president at Hill & Knowlton, a New York-based public relations firm with an expertise in crisis management: "You can't sit on your hands waiting for the problem to disappear. You have to take charge...