Word: panic
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...year-old pill, granted sole American distribution rights to the Population Council, a nonprofit organization specializing in reproductive issues, with the understanding that the group would conduct clinical trials and find a manufacturer for the drug. After six years of research and more than a few last-minute panic attacks from would-be manufacturing companies, the moment of reckoning has arrived: The Population Council has concluded a hugely successful drug trial in which 92 percent of the participants achieved a "favorable" outcome and a marketing group, Banco Laboratories, and manufacturer (the name of which remains anonymous) have been pinpointed...
...Greenspan well knows from his interest-rate games, the markets tend to absorb this kind of thing pretty fast. Policy moves get discounted, suspense turns to panic, intentions quickly get buried in expectations. A month is a very long time for traders and investors to sit with this significant a policy shift, and how it all shakes out in the labyrinthine land of puts, calls, options and futures is really anybody's guess. Gore and Clinton have put themselves at the mercy of a mob whose ways they can't possibly fathom, and if they're smart they...
Understandably, Firestone may wish to limit the scope of the recall in order not to risk tarnishing its entire brand or setting off a panic. But when the public is questioning the brand across the board, "perception," notes Susan Bixler, president of the Professional Image consulting firm in Atlanta, "is more powerful than reality...
...Senate race. McCollum, 56, whose role as a prosecutor in President Clinton's impeachment trial sharpened his image as a partisan pit bull, is barnstorming Jacksonville homeless shelters and African-American churches in his Orlando district insisting that the more moderate conservative "is who I really am." Panic hasn't set in yet; but Nelson bets that "this is where the Republican jihad is going to be waged. The stakes are too high...
...Bush camp was trying not to panic, though top fund raisers were tapped to call up big donors and hold their hands. "Everyone thought we were so good that we were gonna walk away with this thing," sighs a top adviser to the Texas Governor. "Even we started believing it." Last week there was no shortage of Republican operatives who said they had seen trouble coming for weeks, even months, but none of the cocky co-pilots in Austin would listen. Some image advisers inside the campaign and back in Washington at Republican headquarters had said for weeks the Bush...