Word: panic
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...beginning to panic as well. Last week a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended that anyone who had lived in France, Portugal or Ireland for a total of 10 years since 1980 be prohibited from donating blood (rules adopted last year excluded anyone who had lived in Britain for six months between 1980 and 1996). The American Red Cross, meanwhile, urged the FDA to apply the six-month rule to all of Western Europe--which would cut the supply of donors 5% or so--even though there's no evidence that the disease can be transmitted through blood...
...friend realized that she had disappeared into the bathroom, she became worried and began pounding on the door. The friend told police that she heard clothes rustling before the door swung open and the alleged victim bolted from the bathroom "with her eyes very big and a look of panic on her face." As she gathered her things to flee the party, the friend said, she broke into tears. When police arrested Chmura, one of his first remarks was directed at the girl: "How could you do this...
...Melancholy would dog him all his life, as would feelings of worthlessness, panic, high anxiety and frustration. It wouldn't matter that he married twice, raised five children, and became the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, attaining success on a scale no individual comic strip artist had ever known. Success fell off him. He was unable to take refuge in its rewards. With his first wife and five children, he moved in 1958 to a paradise among the redwoods of Northern California, where he briefly found happiness during a decade in which the work...
...tech index's worst year ever. For tech stocks, we're not talking bear, we're talking crash - a steady slide that started in March and is only picking up speed at year's end. All fall, traders talked about the need for "capitulation"; now they're calling it panic, and it's going around Wall Street like an Asian...
David Newman, president of Network Test Inc, which tests router technology, says that Bradner points out a worrisome trend in Internet infrastructure, but it's not yet time to press the panic button...