Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the past two weeks, lines of customers waiting to withdraw money from the 80 offices of Oakland's Fidelity Savings & Loan Association snaked through branch lobbies and out onto the sidewalk. There was no panic because everyone who demanded money got it, but cash was flowing out at near panic levels. Last Thursday alone, $25 million was withdrawn...
...defense produced a first stanza that was "the best half we've played this year," according to Coach Bob Scalise. 4) Delaware gave the Crimson the biggest scare of its winning streak in making up deficits of 6-3 and 9-7, but the team shut the door in panic's face with a quick sudden death score...
Farmers do not panic at the occasional bad year. If anything, they are an overly optimistic breed, always willing to gamble their physical labor and financial assets, going deeply into debt on the premise that next year will be better. Unfortunately, 1982 is shaping up as the third consecutive year in which net farm income is sharply depressed. After reaching $32.7 billion in 1979, it plummeted to $19.9 billion in 1980, limped along at $22.9 billion in 1981 and could slide below $15 billion this year. Adjusted for inflation and with the paper value of immense unsold inventories deducted, farm...
Says Stanford University Physicist and Arms Control Expert Sidney Drell, "I only hope that if we could keep the nuclear threshold high and we bought time and did not panic, we could turn off a conventional war before it went nuclear. I really can't see any way to manage a nuclear...
...Edna Martin, manager of the Howard Manor apartments in Hollister: "You get used to the small ones. You feel the rumble, but that is about all. Five years ago, the water in the pool flowed back and forth, and we had to fill it. But I try not to panic my tenants. We have an ideal climate here. We are close to everything. You adapt." Adds David G. Edwards, director of mental-health services in the county: "I have not treated a single case of earthquake anxiety yet." Edwards works in Hollister but lives 40 miles away in Monterey...