Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spring of Panic already seems like ancient history to Harvard professors and administrators. With obvious relief, they downplay the memory of the Reagan administration's initial attack on the federal budget for higher education and point with pride to the programs Congress salvaged over the summer. But new problems have surfaced in recent weeks: slumping financial markets and upward revisions of federal deficit predictions have prompted the administration to propose $10 billion to $15 billion in additional budget cuts, some in the military and some in departments that support universities. "It's always possible we could be getting some more...
...missile must surely have known that he was facing superior American aircraft; in any case, at least two Libyan MiG-23s, much more advanced aircraft than the Su-22s, were in the area of the dogfight and did not intervene. Did Tripoli order the attack or did the pilot panic? Did he make a mistake of bravado or simply trigger the Atoll by accident? Or did he perhaps believe that, as had happened at least once before, in 1973, the American planes would not return fire...
...comparable grades of crude in order to boost sales. The country is currently losing an estimated $1.5 billion monthly from its dwindling oil business, and its $8 billion in foreign exchange reserves could run out by year's end. "They [the Nigerians] are on the verge of panic," said one conference delegate. "We are all nervous about this...
...father. As president, the man aggressively expanded the business, building additional plants and buying new machinery. Yet the market was moving away from his product. Hoping to improve things by a dramatic change he appointed a successor as president and made himself chairman. Then he went into a panic and consulted Zaleznik about whether to fire his successor...
...such features as Snow White and Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi, roughly a decade later, can be seen as a process in which movement became subtler and more complex, with a parallel growth in the expressive range of the studio's "stars." The animators learned to incorporate tragedy (the panic of a lost boy in Pinocchio, the death of Bambi's mother) in what the public persisted in calling "cartoons...