Word: panic
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...wasn't so long ago that conservatives believed that George Bush's presidency would usher in a political realignment that would last for decades. But as the right looks forward to the next election, something close to panic is setting in. Surveying the leading G.O.P. contenders for 2008, direct-mail guru Richard Viguerie pronounces "not a one of them is worthy of support from conservatives." Says Craig Shirley, a public relations executive who represents many conservative groups and who has written a book on the Reagan revolution: "There's anger, there's angst, there's dismay in the conservative movement...
...most part, though, companies muddled through. Paul Hsu, a Hong Kong banker, says that while the Internet was running slowly, there was no panic at his office. "Things are pretty chill here," he says. Steve Rowles, an analyst at CFC Seymour stock brokerage in Hong Kong, says his company was unable to use its normal trading system on Wednesday but kept operating by routing buy and sell orders through its main office in Switzerland. But he noted that trading volumes were light because the outage occurred between Christmas and New Year's Day. "If this had happened two weeks from...
...discerning Chinese collectors in the model of the influential Saatchi. But that's unlikely to affect the demand for modern Chinese art, since many of the newly minted millionaires simply don't have anywhere else to put their cash. "It's what I call the panic of new money," says Zhao, 45, who manages the venerable Courtyard Gallery. "The government is killing the property market, the stock market has been up and down like a bouncing ball, and people don't trust it. They can only buy so many Mercedes. They have to put their money somewhere, and right...
...fiction, the culmination of two years of secret planning by television journalist Philippe Dutilleul and his colleagues at the French-language public broadcaster. The ensuing panic didn't quite approach that created by Orson Welles' War of the Worlds - acknowledged as the model for the Belgian prank - but more than 30,000 phone calls flooded the broadcaster's switchboard, and the channel's website crashed as concerned viewers sought confirmation. The reason for the hubbub, of course, is that although the events described in the fake "news" broadcast had more than a dash of melodrama, they were eminently believable...
...Panic At The Disco—“I Write Sins Not Tragedies.” This song seems so avant-garde and yet it’s structurally very simple and repetitive. Good job, kids...