Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What he cannot guarantee is what the trigger-pullers will do - and the investors, big and small, that stand behind them. Tuesday the talk was of a panic selloff, Wednesday of a patriot?s rally. By Thursday the markets had been closed for longer than anyone alive could remember, and by Monday, the emotional graph seems to suggest, investors and their stock markets could be back to very nearly a rational state...
...often enough this week that he will best serve himself by unplugging his phone and keeping away from his computer; in the market, small fools never get what they are after by rushing in. Besides, the market?s institutional investors - its big money men - do not want an unseemly panic, a public running of capitalism?s most savage dogs, and so there will...
...began at the base of the island and wound up the highways as far as you could see, tens of thousands of people with clothes dusted, faces grimy, marching northward, away from the battlefield. There was not a single smile on a single face. But there was remarkably little panic as well--more steel and ingenuity: Where am I going to sleep tonight? How will I get home? "They can't keep New Jersey closed forever," a man said. Restaurant-supply companies on the Bowery handed out wet towels. A cement mixer drove toward the Queensboro Bridge with dozens...
...huddled around the TV with colleagues on the 36th floor of Chicago's Sears Tower, shortly after 8 a.m., watching the smoke billowing from the World Trade Center after the first attack. When the second plane hit, bewilderment at a faraway spectacle turned into a much more personal, creeping panic. The Chicago staff of the Piper Jaffray investment firm suddenly redirected their gazes toward the windows, quietly searching for jets on their own horizon. The 110-story Sears Tower, even taller than the World Trade Center, is the tallest building in the U.S.; a vulnerable target. Bernard's wife called...
...scene so that they might be set up to record the vivid surreal bloom of the second strike ("Am I seeing this?"), and then?could they be such engineering geniuses, so deft at demolition? - the catastrophic collapse of the two towers, one after the other, and a sequence of panic in the streets that might have been shot for a remake of The War of the Worlds or for Independence Day. Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which is why, in an era of gaudy and gifted media, evil may vastly magnify its damage by the power of horrific images...