Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin special negotiations with these firms on the terms of their eventual takeover. In general, said Mauroy, non-French shareholders would have a choice of cashing in now, selling their assets to the state next fall, or retaining a stake in the Socialist experiment. The announcement caused no undue panic: the French stock exchange actually posted a 2.2% gain following Mauroy's speech...
Presidents have been intrigued and sustained by events in the air since the nation's birth. From Philadelphia in 1793, George Washington wrote out a note in English for Jean Pierre Blanchard so that the French balloonist, on his pioneering flight over the Delaware River, would not panic the New Jersey natives. Thomas Jefferson benefited from early airmail in 1803: a carrier pigeon flew from New York to Washington bearing the good news that Napoleon had agreed to the Louisiana Purchase. Teddy Roosevelt was the first occupant of the White House to fly, even though he was no longer...
...coughing up blood, we both decided that maybe I'd broken a rib and punctured a lung." On the way to the hospital, he began having trouble breathing. "The more I tried to breathe, it kept seeming as if I was getting less air. You know that panic that you can get if you're strangling on something." Only after arriving at the hospital did Reagan learn that he had been shot...
...sent 15 messages to Congress, guided 15 major laws to enactment, delivered ten speeches, held press conferences and Cabinet meetings twice a week, conducted talks with foreign heads of state, sponsored an international conference, made all the major decisions in domestic and foreign policy, and never displayed fright or panic and rarely even bad temper...
...vesque's tactics paid off handsomely: the Parti Québecois won an impressive 80 seats in the 122-seat legislature compared with 67 in the outgoing assembly. Moreover, the victory was accepted with equanimity by the losers. There was no trace of the near panic that followed Lévesque's 1976 election, when many Quebeckers hastily transferred their assets to U.S. banks in fear of possible devaluation or other economic turmoil...