Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the past two years as they struggled with the Third World's staggering debt problems. But the financiers arriving in Washington for this week's joint annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were in an upbeat mood. Gone was the near panic that swept the same meeting in 1982 after Mexico declared that it could not make its loan payments on schedule. Now the bankers and ministers share a growing optimism about the health of the world economy...
Referring to the Salvadoran government as "run by the United States government," he said that he and his colleagues "are nearly in a panic trying to figure out what will happen after November" if President Reagan is reelected...
...park becomes a true summer resort," said Laura O. Palmer, director of public information at-the MDC. Said one man found strolling in the park last Sunday. "Now my daughter can ride up and down here on her bicycle and I don't have to panic every two minutes...
...communicate so loudly or intrusively as to invade another's privacy without justification. No one is free to speak in such a way as to create a "clear and present danger" of inflicting immediate harm on others, a principle illustrated by Justice Holmes's famous example of causing needless panic by falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. In rare situations where choices must be made among competing applicants--as when two groups seek to use the same forum at the same time--officials must choose between them on some reasonable basis even though the effect may be to favor...
...must not judge the deficit only at the federal level. The total national, state and local deficit is about $100 billion to $110 billion. In a $3.8 trillion economy, that deficit is not as bad as the hysteria would have us assume. We should not panic. We should cut spending where possible. But a relentless pursuit of growth and jobs and extension of this recovery is the single most critical thing available to us to get the deficit down...