Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government tells me that I can't buy a Japanese car, I won't panic. I'll just put on my Taiwanese jogging shoes and get on a city bus (made in Germany) or a subway car (made in France), or ride around town on my Japanese bicycle while the free market is closed for emergency repairs...
...there were even more basic feelings brought out by Mon day's events. Trust, for one thing: the belief that in spite of all the initial misinformation, the facts would eventually be known. Patience, for another; and a general absence of panic. Faith in science, as the doctors were relied on to tell the country what its future looked like. Faith in God, for those who have it. Faith too in the press, remarkably; the same press that is excoriated as a matter of daily habit, still counted on in a real emergency to get the truth as best...
...just in the past year. Even the official Polish Press Agency last week admitted that because of the nation's economic turmoil, the first quarter of 1981 was the "grimmest" in Poland's postwar history. To complete the gloomy landscape, a critical food shortage, compounded by panic buying, has resulted in frustratingly long lines in front of near empty shops...
...could dispute Kania's claim that the economy was in dire straits. With a $27 billion foreign debt, runaway inflation and falling production, Poland was on the verge of economic collapse. Panic buying aggravated an already critical food shortage; practically nothing was available except beans and vinegar. New rationing measures seemed imminent when the government announced that it had only twelve days of food supplies left. Both the U.S. and the European Community offered to send foodstuffs and financial aid; the announcements were obviously timed to encourage a peaceful resolution of the latest crisis...
...earlier Pretty Baby. Here she is Sally, a clam-bar waitress who is as determined to escape her past as Lou is to recapture his Loonily, she aspires to be the first female dealer in the casino at Monte Carlo, and her plucky struggle to keep the panic pushed down inside her when her former life reaches out to reclaim her is played with the subtle clarity one associates with Sarandon's work. There is a core of strength in her, even when she is playing losers, a lack of guile and artifice that is extremely appealing. She evokes...