Word: panic
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...efforts to defibrillate an economy that had all but seized during the recent outbreak. With 300 dead, Hong Kong become known as ground zero for the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, laying low an already stumbling economy and devastating the local travel industry. During the height of the panic, the airport handled just 20% of its normal passenger flow, and hotel occupancy rates fell to less than 20%. Among the no-shows were the Rolling Stones, who canceled a much anticipated concert, although they will appear at a festival in the harbor in November...
...warns students to resist the temptation to elevate grades over conscience. Although Harvard administrators “do not suggest that they expect students to be dishonest in their work,” they realize that at Harvard, “procrastination and last-minute haste lead to panic and, in desperation, to cheating and academic dishonesty...
...announcements? Some of our concerns have been assuaged by further information that came after the vague initial press release. When we discovered that only one of the basketball courts would be converted into dance space, for instance, leaving another free for IM and recreational use, some of our panic died down. We are also beginning to contemplate the exciting possibilities that the changes could engender. While we look forward to such improvements, though, they have not blinded us to the costs that accompany them...
...placed his bomb in a taxi at Zaveri Bazaar, a crowded jewelry market, police say the Hanifs had packed explosives in the bag they stashed in the taxi's trunk, then detonated it at the Gateway. With their youngest daughter, Shakira, in tow, the Hanifs then walked through the panic-stricken crowds to safety. Although Hanif's third child, a teenage boy, was not involved, Maria says Hanif's wife and teenage daughter "were both willing accomplices...
...soldier killed in an ambush on a convoy in Baghdad and two of his colleagues wounded, four soldiers wounded in two separate ambushes in Baqubah and Ramadi. The U.S. is facing a guerrilla insurgency capable of mounting multiple simultaneous attacks in different locations, high profile terror attacks that spread panic in the civilian population and systematic sabotage attacks on oil, water and electricity supplies...