Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sharon was incapacitated by a massive stroke. Sharon, ever stubborn, lived on, breathing a little, responding reflexively to pokes and proddings from his physicians--and so there was no state funeral, no national emotional catharsis, no clear transfer of power. But more important, there was no political confusion or panic. Leadership was quietly assumed by Sharon's deputy, Ehud Olmert. "Here we are in the midst of a revolution in Israeli politics," Avi Dichter, former director of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency, told me. "Our great national leader is crippled--and there is no crisis. Power is passed...
...fund Project BioShield, a program he said would "quickly make available effective vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola and plague." That sounded like a good idea, considering the havoc wrought by the anthrax mailings of 2001, which killed five people and set off a near panic for treatment. So Congress anted up. Eighteen months later, Bush signed BioShield into law. The measure set aside $5.6 billion for drug companies, offered the promise of a guaranteed and speedy contract--even an opportunity to sell the government novel treatments before they are fully approved by the Food...
...what to do? For one thing, the CDC and other groups caution that there's no cause for panic. If you truly need to go to the hospital, go-even with the increased risk of encountering C. diff there. What's more, truly essential antibiotics should still be prescribed and taken. It's the more casual dosing-for sore throats or mild infections that could clear up on their own-that create the problem. Staying clean and washing up is critical. And for those who do contract the new strain of the disease, the prognosis is nowhere near hopeless...
...largest producer of surfboard materials abruptly hung up its board. Without any advance warning, the Clark Foam factory-whose polyurethane foam ?blanks? fill more than 75 percent of all surfboards on the planet-shut its doors after 44 years in business, sending the industry into a market-driven panic. Within seconds, surfboard prices around the country skyrocketed...
Donato wanted his team to generate more offense, to keep attacking all night. A one-goal lead can be panic-inducing as the clock winds down...