Word: panic
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...greatest destructive force of biological weapons depends on the panic and ensuing chaos caused by their initial release. Rational, careful planning can ensure that any biological attack is contained before it has the chance to replicate its terror...
Waiting in the wings, though, are hedge-fund managers and others who have been looking for a cathartic last push lower in the stock market. Their thinking now is that any disaster-related selling would amount to a final washing out of panic and set the table for another bull run. After all, the broad S&P 500 has already fallen 30% since March 2000. As corporations report earnings this quarter and next, many will start to look better compared with the weak earnings in the corresponding quarters last year. Oracle, for example, reported last Thursday that it had beaten...
...idea is to turn up inconsistencies in a terrorist's made-up story (or at least rattle him into a panic) and also expose individuals who may be unknowing accomplices. In 1986, El Al security at London's Heathrow airport discovered a bomb sewn into the suitcase of an unwitting Irish woman after she revealed that she had had a romance with a Jordanian, who had bought...
...really proud of how the whole team didnt panic, said Staph, who finished the drive with a three-yard endzone plunge. You say things when youre down 10 points like, Keep your heads up, were gonna win this, but its amazing that we actually...
...rash of e-mail forwards and newspaper articles inspired local, but limited, panic and several students left the area while police presence was beefed up at the Harvard football game on Saturday...