Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schooley emphasized that people should not panic because of the new findings, saying that "we all get ordinary pains...
Although primarily a fund raiser, the well-publicized dinner was also the film capital's way of confronting a growing panic. Though health authorities issue new assurances almost daily that AIDS cannot be spread through casual contact with its victims, Hollywood performers and directors have joined dentists, parents of schoolchildren and many other Americans in developing their own set of phobias about the disease. The film community, for example, is widely assumed to include at least its share of homosexual men. Male homosexuals constitute the largest single group of AIDS victims. For Hollywood's female stars, the most pressing career...
...minute, toppled some already weakened buildings but caused few new injuries. Mainly, it made the rubble bounce and rekindled fear among the city's residents, thousands of whom had spent the night in parks and other open spaces. President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took note of the "panic" provoked by the second shock, but assured Mexicans that "the damage was much less than the first." Earlier, in appealing for calm, he had told his countrymen that "we are living through a great tragedy that affects all Mexicans...
...exceptions, it sputters in urban, heavily industrialized environments. As soon as the government declared last May that the cost of some subsidized goods in 22 cities and provinces should be determined by market forces rather than by state decree, prices surged by as much as 50%. The rise triggered panic buying and brought back memories among older citizens of the hyperinflation that ravaged China in 1949 during the final months of the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek...
Anxiety over AIDS in some parts of the U.S. is verging on hysteria. The boycott that kept home 12,000 of the 47,000 students in two Queens school districts on the first day of school last week was only the most dramatic display of the panic that has made virtual lepers out of many AIDS victims...