Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What shows up in the Crimson each day--despite an elaborate system of editing and proofreading--is often very raw; the product of panic and deadlines, hurried phone calls and illegible notes. It is sometimes bad, usually pretty bland, but occasionally very good and once in a while it manages to be very very good. There is something for just about everyone in this book, though it is unfortunately short on politics, the subject which has driven Crimson editors to many of their best pieces over the years. It won't really tell you what The Crimson is all about...
...media two major themes to obscure the reality of the Salvadorean struggle: the "far left versus far right" scheme, and the spectre of Soviet and Cuban power, the first theme, ingenious as it is, has largely failed; the Reagan Administration, therefore, is pushing the public's fear of communism panic button, hoping to activate a resurgence of the popular domino theory...
...there a serious possibility of such a collapse of the S and Ls? No, says John Dalton, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board: the $32.5 billion in total S and L net worth is more than enough to offset any panic. The notion, though, is not as alarmist as it might seem. Already the stresses are being felt...
Giving up hope of Coast Guard help, Verb remembers that St. Vincent Hospital, 15 miles away in Toledo, has a "life flight" Alouette III five-passenger helicopter. By now sleet is falling steadily on the marooned fishermen. Some are beginning to panic, thinking that night will fall before they can be lifted off. "The ice was broke up so bad we couldn't get back to the boats," Don Van Dyke recalls. They stay put, afraid that the thickening weather will keep them from being seen. The big red copter whirls down through the sleet, sending up a cloud...
...personal," says the lecturer. The younger man agrees and the two men stare ahead, rapt in concentration. But something is wrong. As the young man narrows his gaze, the lecturer shows signs of agitation, of discomfort, of pain, agony-sploooosh! The bowling-ball head explodes, the meeting ends in panic, and the young man-who we now realize is a renegade scanner-vaults out of the room...