Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meaningful booze and meaningless sex are substantial: an erratically egomaniacal star (Joseph Bologna); an aggrieved hoodlum (Cameron Mitchell), convinced he is being satirized in one of the regular sketches and determined to have violent revenge; a writing staff headed by a man (Bill Macy) who knows only three emotions-panic, depression and obsequiousness; the general hysteria surrounding the weekly production of a program that is broadcast live, without benefit of retakes. To guide him through all this in more or less upright condition, Swann is placed in the hands of a junior writer named Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker...
...formulas by which need is adjusted have also remained unchanged, says Acting Financial Aid Director Seamus P. Malin. Malin, an assistant admissions dean who is filling in this year on the aid-office post he held six years ago, says the level of panic and of appeals for reevaluation is about the same as he remembers--as is the number of students who actually drop out for economic reasons. Of these, the aid office sees "only the really dramatic ones, maybe ten a year," Malin says, while the Ad Board handles the rest. And of these, Malin draws a distinction...
...panic grew as two bombs exploded the following day, one targeted at a Jewish-run business, the other at the Iraqi embassy. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin called on French Jews to "protect yourselves if your government cannot." The situation was getting out of hand...
Until the past few years it was all talk, not widely translated into concrete toughness. So why the imprisonment spree now? Essentially, because U.S. citizens reached a critical level of panic and anger at what they feel is a constantly lurking threat. Moreover, prosecutors in some states are winning a lot more cases, in part because they are concentrating their efforts on the career criminals responsible for a disproportionate share of street crime. Between 1972 and 1979 in Chicago's Cook County, felony convictions increased 470%. Many trial judges, roused by fierce, if glancingly focused public rage, have been imposing...
...Asian provinces, that the moment has come to attack what it assumes to be a soft and irresolute NATO alliance. When their mighty armored thrusts into West Germany fail-just barely-to overwhelm NATO, the Soviets gamble that a nuclear attack will throw the West into panic, and they vaporize Birmingham, England. Twenty-five minutes later the Allies detonate four ICBMS over Minsk. The ghastly three-week war is ended, and the dammed-up anger of its own abused citizens sweeps the Soviet government and the Communist Party into history's celebrated dustbin...