Word: panic
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...Bush Administration has done its best to counsel the world not to panic, making daily appeals to give diplomacy a chance. Secretary of State Colin Powell refused even to call the situation a "crisis." But with each new North Korean gambit, that official insouciance sounds more off-key. Seemingly overnight, the U.S. begins the New Year eyeball to eyeball with a paranoid, ruthless regime hell-bent on obtaining nuclear weapons to complement an army the Pentagon rates among the most formidable in the world. And so, despite their stoic miens, White House officials are grasping for some way to yank...
...criminal investigation into allegations that it underpaid rebates for pharmaceutical products under Medicaid, the U.S. health plan for the poor. A further Bayer headache is the imminent expiration in the U.S. of the patent on another Bayer best seller, the antibiotic Cipro, the drug of choice during the panic over anthrax, which boosted sales to j1.9 billion. The company hopes a new once-a-day Cipro version will help maintain sales against generic competition from companies like Ratiopharm in Germany. Bayer had long insisted that it needed a drug unit to help offset market cycles in its chemical and pesticide...
...World Series panic ends: Major League Baseball and its players seal a deal within hours of a strike deadline, saving season...
...group is more vulnerable than the Israelis. Iraq lobbed 42 Scuds at Israel during the Gulf War. Only one Israeli was killed by a missile, though 15 died of heart attacks, suffocation in their gas masks or reaction to a chemical-weapon antidote that some took in a panic. Pentagon planners are worried that in a new war, if Saddam again hits Israel with missiles--wishing to ignite a wider conflict that would pit Muslim nations against the U.S. and Israel--Washington would be unable to convince the Israeli government, as it did in 1991, that it should refrain from...
...those of you who get caught up in the gift-giving frenzy of the holidays, don’t panic if you’re not quite sure what to get people special in your life. You still have a whole week before Christmas comes around. Besides, getting a present is fun at any time, so this whole deadline thing honestly isn’t all that important...