Word: panic
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...among the lucky ones. Foot-and-mouth disease, a centuries-old malady, continued its resurgence last week-rampaging through British farms, paralyzing the country's rural economy, draining public coffers and setting off yet another health panic in Europe. It even prompted soul-searching about the future of European agriculture and the safety of European food in an increasingly competitive, and hazardous, global marketplace. But the epidemic's most devastating impact was felt in picturesque English counties like Devon and Northumberland, by scores of businessmen even less fortunate than McInnes: despondent small farmers who watched entire livelihoods...
...measure of our own Puritanism-a Puritanism which suggests that pleasure must lie in the exclusive repository of expensive vacations; that the routine and the familiar must be devoted exclusively to the work-obsessed and fast-food-filled tedium that will make our panic-stricken two weeks of vacation (as compared with Europe's God-given minimum of a month) seem worth the 50 we have sacrificed to make them possible...
...appalling savagery of the Dayaks? It's a question that Kma Usop, a Dayak cultural leader and a professor at Palangkaraya University, strains to answer, his words pouring out in an emotional stream as he lights an unending series of Pall Mall cigarettes. "The Dayaks are in a panic, they are feeling marginalized. They have been provoked for many years. The Madurese are violent. They fight in the markets and in the farms. We don't have similar problems with the Buginese or Chinese or Javanese...
...panic has been limited. But then that's what makes it torture. As bad as the '87 crash was (22.6% on the Dow in a day), we were in a new bull market the next morning. Indeed, the '87 "buying opportunity" had much to do with fostering a buy-on-dips mentality that prevailed through the '90s. That mentality is in the process of getting crushed. We've moved from buying dips to just holding on. What comes next is "'Omigod, the stock market is risky,'" which is when people get out, says Nicholas Sargen, strategist at J.P. Morgan Private...
...into a panic that the building would turn into something else or go into...