Word: panic
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...trust people with the information, the paper quotes an official as saying, because "we're not in the business of terrifying the public." So members of Congress have evacuation routes, but the general population does not, despite the fact that a year ago the premise that people panic in a crisis was put to the ultimate test, and people passed, with honors. The states, soaked in red ink, can't do much without Washington's help. Texas put its land commissioner in charge of state security and gave him $50,000 to do the job. Last month President Bush decided...
...planes were "slim, so slim." It was harder to reassure herself. But she had to work and within two weeks was back in the air. Moutardier, in a chilling instant, remembered working with one of the crew members killed. A month after she returned to work, she suffered a panic attack so paralyzing that she didn't want to get on another flight. Her supervisor told her to go home, but Moutardier willed herself on board. "As a flight attendant, you learn to leave your feelings at the door," she says...
...Stephen Zinner: I don't think there's any reason to panic. People should not live in fear of this virus. Just keep mosquito prevention in mind. As we've all been hearing, most healthy adults are not at great risk...
Helms didn't panic. His students and their parents hail from as far away as Vietnam, Mexico, Germany, Portugal, Panama and, fortunately, China. By the end of Zhong's second week, Helms, with help from the Cantonese-speaking students in his class, had taught Zhong to count past 10 as well as to answer yes and no to questions translated...
...near usurious subscription fees for it. In one new episode, Tony sees squirrels eating the feed he left out for ducks in his backyard. The scene harks back to the 1999 pilot, in which a family of ducks landed in the Soprano pool, leading to Tony's first panic attack (they triggered anxieties about his family). Broadcast networks increasingly believe it's highfalutin to air dramas like 24 that require viewers to remember what happened the week before...