Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shivered and whimpered through the 28-0 defeat, witnessing the panic of the Harvard coaching staff, which had quarterbacks and passes flying in all directions on every play in the second half...
Leading the buying charge were the big institutional investors, including pension funds, insurance companies and bank trust departments. Scared of being caught on the sidelines during Wall Street's greatest rally, portfolio managers snapped up stocks at a panic pace. Their favorites were the blue chip shares of giant corporations. IBM was up 3⅜ to 85¼. AT&T jumped...
...Upper Peninsula, 2,400 high school students must share just three Apple computers. Downstate in Ovid, teachers at the town's elementary school had to hook their only computer to a television set because they could not afford the standard video monitor. "We have a sense of panic," says Principal Tom Van Deventer. "A year ago, a computer was a luxury. Now it is a necessity." But there are competing necessities. In New Orleans, where fewer than 7% of the schools have computer classes, one school district administrator contends, "Kids here need a lot of other things. They need...
...fear that theirs is the last to walk the earth. There days, fear of extinction seems increasingly rational. It's no accident that much of contemporary writing is obsessed with survival, and poetry is increasingly morbid. Women poets in particular face a struggle for acceptance along with the panic of modern life. One way out of the death trap, suicide, seems at the very least impractical...
REPAYING HATCH, who campaigned for him in 38 states in 1980, Reagan not only visited Utah once to support the Republican senator on his own turf, but also made what the press characterized as a panic second appearance on Friday. Conversely, Hatch has championed the conservative causes to which his constituency is receptive--a constitutional balanced-budget amendment, a ban on federally funded abortions, and an increased defense budget...