Word: panics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Iacocca, Chairman Henry Ford II refused to give up the big profits in building big cars. As a consequence, Ford today has the fewest small economical models. Meanwhile, in order to boost quarterly sales figures, Chrysler during the '70s pushed questionable products onto the market on a near panic basis. One result: the 1974 Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volare have the dubious distinction of being two of the most recalled cars in history. Operating on the industry's fringe, American Motors Corp.'s small cars failed to win wide buyer approval. Its profits came largely from...
...called black terrorists, because of the mindless nature of the crime. Leftist terrorism tends to strike with selective assassinations, like the kidnap-murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro two years ago, Cossiga himself explained to the senate last week. "Black terrorism prefers the massacre because it promotes panic and impulsive reactions." The worst previous incident of terrorism in Italy, in fact, had been the 1969 bombing of a Milan bank that is widely regarded as the start of political terrorism in Italy and for which rightist extremists were tried and sentenced. The bombing took 16 lives and left...
...revolution that toppled Nicaragua's dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, twelve months ago sent shock waves through the region. On the one hand, it stirred yearnings for reform and revolt among both students and the disfranchised peasants; on the other, it prompted panic-stricken oligarchs, determined to retain historic power, to harden then-resistance to change. Ironically, while Nicaragua itself has been able to make considerable headway in consolidating its revolution-peacefully, thus far -a spiral of terrorist violence has escalated elsewhere. Lawless gunmen of both the left and right have brought El Salvador and Guatemala to the brink...
...elephants, donkeys, and dog days in the economy, the bulls have pulled a fast one. Shrugging off gloomy news about rising unemployment, sagging industrial production and red ink all over Detroit, stock prices have been surging steadily for almost four months. Last week, following a spate of near-panic buying that sent total trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange well above 50 million shares on two successive days, the Dow Jones average of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks closed at 954.69, its highest level since March 1977. The Dow's rise of about 200 points...