Word: panic
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...morning of the bombings, my mother called me from California in a panic. She calmed down after I assured her that I was safe and healthy. Later that day, she e-mailed me a long letter. My mother wrote: “With today’s disaster, there will surely be a rise in hate crimes and racism in the near future. You are a person of color and a child of immigrants. It is better to keep a low profile at times like these.” Her warning proved to be prophetic...
...stepped off the subway and walked past a nondescript man nervously clutching a large bag, shifting from one foot to another, that my heart rate, which had slowed almost to normal pace for the first time in a week, picked up again. This guy, I thought to myself, panic rising in my throat, this guy could be carrying anything in that bag. The horrible possibilities danced though my head: A beaker of Anthrax, an explosive device, a gun. My blood pounded in my ears. I could die right here, with absolutely no warning...
...expected commercial-jet slowdown manufacturing would cause it to lay off 30,000 of its workers. And when it became apparent that institutional investors - the big money - was leading the stampede that pushed the NASDAQ below another long-ago low of1500, the mood started to look a lot like panic in the face of immeasurable uncertainty...
...Pentagon been attacked, so had Camp David in Maryland, Pittsburgh and somewhere in Florida. Additionally, we heard that a car bomb had exploded outside the State Department in Washington. Obviously, we had no access to real-time information and the entire area was filled with a sense of panic and hysteria...
...looking to make sure somebody has a reason to buy, loosens its controls on companies buying back their own stock. But as pipe dreams of a patriot?s rally quickly went up in smoke, it became clear before long that this wasn?t going to be a coward?s panic either. The losses stabilized by late morning and actually bounced a bit off their lows before slipping again in later afternoon and then bouncing again. The final tally: The Dow down 677 points, the NASDAQ down 115 - and it did seem as if the involuntary four-day layoff didn...