Word: panic
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...fall," Roach said. Up to now, everyone assumes the path will lead to a soft landing for the dollar, but that's not necessarily true. "The alternative, a hard landing, still keeps me awake at night," says Morgan Stanley's Roach. While there's no need to panic now, that's a fear that should be shared throughout Europe. Until the euro rises on its own strengths instead of on the dollar's weakness, the currency will fail to live up to the high hopes that accompanied its launch three years...
...dissemination leaked out, compounding the confusion. To make matters worse, besieged politicians and bureaucrats have started to overcompensate for past lapses by sharing more than necessary. "Now the feeling is 'When in doubt, put it out,'" says a U.S. counterterrorism official. And once the media and the public sniffed panic in the air, each warning took on a higher level of significance...
...vague warnings of the past week gnaw at public morale because they don't offer much help in preparation of defenses against attacks, but do spread panic - which, of course, is a large part of the terrorists' intention. From al-Qaeda's point of view, the warnings are the ultimate freebie. After all, terrorism is not warfare in the conventional sense, where the object is to project power in order to destroy an enemy's military capability. Terrorism is more in the nature of violence-as-propaganda, using spectacular attacks to terrorize an enemy's support base as well...
...legislators within Arafat's Palestinian Authority had already drawn up proposals to replace his Cabinet within 45 days. Arafat's insistence, however, that elections depended on an Israeli withdrawal left Sharon with his own plan on the table: an "interim" Palestinian government, appointed from outside. LIBERIA Rebels Beaten Back Panic seized the capital, Monrovia, as government troops battled rebel fighters within earshot of the city. Soldiers loyal to President Charles Taylor reclaimed his home town of Arthington, 25 km away, and said they killed more than 120 rebels in towns farther north. The U.N. condemned rebel attempts to take power...
...panic I sometimes feel at my limited procreative shelf life often gives way to anger that I cannot control my ability to bear a child. Some of us are so adept at multitasking, we have come to believe that having children is a biological right. For those women who want children, the failure to have them not only teaches a sobering lesson in the limitations of science, it also provides a discomfiting look at one's own mortality. PAMELA MATHIASEN Los Angeles...