Word: panic
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Waiting in the wings, though, are hedge-fund managers and others who have been looking for a cathartic last push lower in the stock market. Their thinking now is that any disaster-related selling would amount to a final washing out of panic and set the table for another bull run. After all, the broad S&P 500 has already fallen 30% since March 2000. As corporations report earnings this quarter and next, many will start to look better compared with the weak earnings in the corresponding quarters last year. Oracle, for example, reported last Thursday that it had beaten...
...idea is to turn up inconsistencies in a terrorist's made-up story (or at least rattle him into a panic) and also expose individuals who may be unknowing accomplices. In 1986, El Al security at London's Heathrow airport discovered a bomb sewn into the suitcase of an unwitting Irish woman after she revealed that she had had a romance with a Jordanian, who had bought...
...morning of the bombings, my mother called me from California in a panic. She calmed down after I assured her that I was safe and healthy. Later that day, she e-mailed me a long letter. My mother wrote: “With today’s disaster, there will surely be a rise in hate crimes and racism in the near future. You are a person of color and a child of immigrants. It is better to keep a low profile at times like these.” Her warning proved to be prophetic...
...stepped off the subway and walked past a nondescript man nervously clutching a large bag, shifting from one foot to another, that my heart rate, which had slowed almost to normal pace for the first time in a week, picked up again. This guy, I thought to myself, panic rising in my throat, this guy could be carrying anything in that bag. The horrible possibilities danced though my head: A beaker of Anthrax, an explosive device, a gun. My blood pounded in my ears. I could die right here, with absolutely no warning...
...expected commercial-jet slowdown manufacturing would cause it to lay off 30,000 of its workers. And when it became apparent that institutional investors - the big money - was leading the stampede that pushed the NASDAQ below another long-ago low of1500, the mood started to look a lot like panic in the face of immeasurable uncertainty...