Word: panic
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...Sparky's company. In one episode he drags Sparky into the backyard and buries him alive without malice or reason. The next day Quimby wakes up and can't figure out what happened to Sparky. Distressed, he discovers the shovel and, suddenly remembering, begins digging for Sparky in a panic. Quimby retrieves the still-alive Sparky to his great relief and goes to bed happy, though Sparky his bitten out a piece of Quimby's foot as revenge...
...Democratic field fractured, with no heavyweight to take on Schwarzenegger. Sensing a disaster, such influential figures as former Governor Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown took to the cable news shows to suggest that Davis should step aside and beg Feinstein to run in his place. Meanwhile, panic-stricken union officials, who had pledged to stand with Davis, started putting out the word privately that he should not count on the $10 million in assistance he has asked from them...
...what if you're certain prices are heading south? Sell, says Evensky. That is, if you think you'd be unloading in a panic later. A far better scenario is to find an allocation you can live with and stop trying to read the market. "The world won't go broke," he says. "And if you have a diversified portfolio, you won't go broke. Let the talking heads worry about it." --With reporting by Cybele Weisser...
...last year's bathing suit and, above all, counting down the days. But escaping can be stressful. A survey published this week by the British recruitment firm Reed found that 22% of 5,000 British workers said they suffer a syndrome Reed calls "Pre-Holiday Stress," that sense of panic caused by trying to get everything in order before leaving. U.K. workers put in an average of nine hours extra trying to do this. Only 40% said they would take their full vacation entitlement, 10% fewer than last year - although there could be many reasons for that, which might...
...stunts, gun battles and helicopter crashes? There were none. Throughout the movie's entire 119 minutes, none of the five main characters even held a gun. When a lunatic actually pulled a pistol in the station house, the whole joint?of cops, mind you?practically cleared out in a panic...