Word: panic
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...charge of disaster management, as is standard procedure. The problem, he confesses, is what happens to the information after that. "It is not enough just to tell people," he says. "If they are not prepared and don't know to do you could create even more confusion and panic...
...supplier of blank or unfinished boards: Gordon (Grubby) Clark. Last December when the old man slammed shut the doors of Clark Foam, in Laguna Niguel, Calif., he unleashed a tsunami. Some small businesses that had been shaping and finishing Clark's polyurethane (PU) boards simply wiped out; panic over supply swept the industry. But Clark's departure may turn out to be the best thing to happen to the sport. Surfers have been forced to find a new ride...
...Among the Lebanese and the foreigners, I can sense a real sense of panic. The foreigners and young people who have never experienced war are freaked out. And the Lebanese who lived through the civil war and remember it well are worried, too. I spent two years working for TIME magazine in Baghdad, where the citizenry scurries about in fear of hateful random violence. Beirut is not Baghdad - yet - but it could get that way if this keeps...
...foreigners were the first to panic. At the Phoenicia Hotel, the city's fanciest, the lobby was filled with fashionable women fleeing the country in high-heeled shoes. The embassies circulated fanciful evacuation plans involving small airplanes and ferries to Cyprus. The U.N. told its employees to stock up on a month's worth of prescription medication and take a long weekend...
...witnesses then took the victim to an adjoining room, locked the door and called HUPD. Thomas was again passed out at the desk in the victim’s room when police arrived. Officers found the victim “in an apparent state of panic, begging for an Emergency Medical Technician.”After police checked on the victim and the paramedics arrived, officers woke Thomas, who police say was initially confused about where he was and why officers were there.Thomas was then placed under arrest, booked, and arraigned at Cambridge District Court before being released...