Word: panic
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...recent panic over rising gasoline prices highlighted the political improbability of either a Bush or a Gore administration taking the tough steps necessary to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Last summer, American consumers went into revolt when the gasoline price crept past $2 a gallon, and Washington was obliged to scramble for remedies. And yet, $2 a gallon may not be high enough: European success in curbing their own carbon gas emissions has relied in part on taxing gasoline so heavily - as much as 75 percent of the pump price in Britain goes to tax, compared with about 8 percent...
...public places) from Aerosmith, but adolescents who smoke a pack or more a day are five times as likely to develop it as their smoke-free peers. They're also five times as likely to experience an anxiety disorder and a whopping 12 times as likely to develop panic disorder. With any luck that'll scare them off smoking for good...
...once considered private, just like the guys. When a drunken Wilbur Mills took her to see stripper Fanne Foxe perform and declared, "I own her," Mom didn't report it. She also stayed mum after having dinner with Johnson the night after J.F.K.'s shooting, keeping to herself the panic in his eyes, his wild talk that he would be the next victim...
...appalling as is Terrell's death, the fact is that Georgia took steps years ago to keep such a tragedy from happening. After the death of a little girl named Kathy Joe in 1997, Georgia lawmakers vowed reform. Panic over foster care produced regulations designed to save children's lives. Until Terrell's death, however, no one had checked to make sure the changes were enforced. "I am not here to defend this system," says Barnes, who this year pushed for a children's ombudsman and laws to increase caseworker accountability. "We have not made this a high enough priority...
Like all critical darlings, PJ Harvey had a defining moment when she simultaneously endeared herself to rock writers and set off art-house panic alarms in the average listener. That moment was the opening line of her 1993 track Reeling: "I want to bathe in milk/ eat grapes," she raged. "Robert De Niro/ sit on my face." Raw, dark, witty and extremely sexual, Harvey had critics panting, and it's no wonder. But people who actually pay for records stared at the frequently naked form on her album covers; heard the heart-laid-bare, avant-garde songs about frustration...