Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inflict pain, to lie or make you feel worthless." Victims suffer not only from severe injuries but also from survivor guilt, depression and a form of weary aimlessness born of disorientation, sleeplessness and recurrent nightmares. Fear of authorities is so deep that almost any kind of bureaucratic delay can panic a survivor. In Toronto last March, a Chilean torture victim hanged himself the day before immigration authorities were to rule on whether he was entitled to stay in Canada as a political refugee. Delay is the enemy, not only because the survivor may be in shaky psychological condition but also...
Public health officials sought to quell the growing panic. "The parents were concerned that their children would get some horrible, disfiguring disease," says Dr. Steven Strauss, a virologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Strauss went to nearby Pasadena to assure parents, teachers and union officials that their fears were unfounded. Although the herpes viruses can be dangerous for newborns (sometimes causing blindness, mental retardation or even death), they present a relatively minor risk to school-age children. In fact, by age 18, some 80% to 95% of Americans have been exposed to at least...
...CAVES seem at first overrated--dank, gloomy gouges in bare formless hills. Yet there is something unnerving about them. Claustrophobia sejzes Mrs. Moore, and, in a panic, she dashes out into the open air. She tells Aziz she would sit and rest; he and Adela should go on and explore without...
...prestige and a marketing budget estimated at $40 million, the PCjr sold as sluggishly as Edsels in the late 1950s. Consumers seemed to be turned off by the computer's toylike appearance and $1,269 price tag. Dealers, stuck with growing inventories of unsold machines, were beginning to panic. Wrote Popular Computing Columnist Steven Levy: "The machine has the smell of death about...
Many of the town's residents and plant workers praise Union Carbide for its safety record. They speak glowingly of how the plant was one of the few in the region that did not lay off workers during the recession. The news from India did not trigger panic. Says Nelljean Holmes, whose husband has worked at the plant for the past 24 years: "The first thing I thought of was that maybe they didn't have qualified workers at the plant in India. I just don't think what happened in India could happen here." Standing outside...