Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little confused out there." Coach Carole Kleinfelder said of her charges after the game. "The upperclassmen are going to have to rise to the occasion. If we're going to be a contender, we're going to have to have Mo and Frannic lead by example, because if they panic in pressure situations, everybody else will panic...
...make their weight felt. Non-OPEC countries, including Britain, Mexico and the U.S., currently produce about half of the free world's crude and have become an influence on international prices as OPEC'S share has fallen to 43%. Last week the British triggered the latest panic in the world oil market by reducing the price of oil from its 20 North Sea fields from...
...play-from his earliest one-acter, The Room (1957), to his latest drama, Betrayal-begins on a note of nervous apprehension. What proceeds after that is not the unfolding of a plot but the revelation of a state of being, a kind of black comic hell consisting of menace, panic, boredom and absurdist non sequiturs. His characters are caught in seemingly desperate and openly despairing situations that cannot be ameliorated and that may end in psychological or physical violence...
...around Ford-not the usual scene at such meetings, where the Vice President is treated politely but as a supernumerary. I was sitting in my place to the right of the presidential chair when Nixon walked in. I had spent too many hours with him not to sense his panic...
...driving, the report notes, their impairment "may suggest a substantial risk." The effects may last four to eight hours after the time the user feels a "high," unlike alcohol, which is more quickly metabolized. Marijuana hampers short-term memory, slows learning and produces distortions of judgment, including reactions of panic and confusion. Consequently, there is special concern since much of the heavy use of marijuana "takes place within the school setting." Says Charles O'Brien, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a member of the committee: "There...