Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost 7% of its total petroleum supply. If it had to happen, the loss could hardly have come at a better time. For good reason, throughout the West there was a concerted effort to reassure the public. Some oil experts and politicians insisted that there was no cause for panic, that the future was not so desperate as some headlines leaped to suggest, and that the immediate impact of no oil from Iraq and Iran would be negligible. Speaking at a White House press conference last Wednesday, Jimmy Carter stressed that there was no energy emergency. Said he: "The consuming...
...precious crude from the Middle East would once again be cut off. Last week, as the war between Iran and Iraq threatened to make that bad dream a reality, financial centers from New York to Tokyo immediately trembled. But the markets then responded with surprising strength and absence of panic. Said one Manhattan stockbroker at midweek: "The market seems to be taking this as if nothing were happening. It seemed that the latest Middle East war was one the Western oil-consuming world could still afford, at least for the moment...
Meselson warns, "We should not consider chemical weapons in an atmosphere of panic. Like most technological advances, inadequate attention has been given to the long term implications of building chemical weapons...
...unabashedly horny. I remember when monsters had morals: King Kong (a little fondling); the Creature from the Black Lagoon (bad ideas--but stoic). And the mere abduction of the unconscious woman seemed to satisfy the aggressive but asexual adolescent; after the limp female was draped across the rocks the panic light went on--"Uh oh, what does he do now?"--and the hero conveniently arrives to blow the shit out of the suddenly pensive creature...
...unabashedly horny. I remember when monsters had morals: King Kong (a little fondling); the Creature from the Black Lagoon (bad ideas--but stoic). And the mere abduction of the unconscious woman seemed to satisfy the aggressive but asexual adolescent; after the limp female was draped across the rocks the panic light went on--"Uh oh, what does he do now?"--and the hero conveniently arrives to blow the shit out of the suddenly pensive creature...