Word: panic
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...stamped my passport and handed it back to me. She must have also pressed a hidden "panic" button, because soon, a stern man from Airport Security approached me. "May I see your passport, please...
Liberals, however, are not the only ones who need to let people speak unfettered on college campuses. Also pushing the panic button last week were officials at New Jersey's private, Catholic-affiliated Seton Hall University. On Thursday, the day before the Columbia confrontation, Seton Hall announced that Governor Christine Todd Whitman would be prohibited from receiving a public service award on the campus due to her support for a woman's right to choose. "No public recognition is given to those espousing positions contrary to our Catholic mission," said Monsignor Robert Sheeran, president of Seton Hall...
...eating delicately prepared viands and enjoying life in either a Manhattan penthouse, where one prays the swimming pool does not spring a leak and ruin the library's first editions, or a riverside mansion, where the helicopter pad blends nicely into the landscape. There is no rage, pain or panic in any of these venues, and no wild laughter either. There are only the muttered discontents of the well favored...
...have to be pushy," Muxie said. "Cancer doesn't wait on you to act. Don't panic, but act decisively... Especially these days, with the health care system functioning like a Banana Republic, you've got to get that done...
Looking back, it makes sense. How could I have gotten a job with Saloman SmithBarney when, the morning of my interview, I called my Ec10 TF in a panic, asking him to explain to me what an investment bank does? (I still...