Word: panic
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...readers. Also, some of the 34 "Indian peasants" to whom you refer, including the occupiers' leadership, were in fact students from our national university (Universidad de San Carlos) who, on this and other occasions, have sought to further their own political objectives by cynically exploiting campesino grievances. In panic or by design, one of the occupiers threw an incendiary device that ricocheted off a metal window grille, thereby engulfing the room in flames. The ensuing deaths were caused by burning or suffocation, not by police bullets. Who murdered whom...
...worst-case scenario: a country with sky-high oil debts defaults on its loans to a major bank, causing that bank, and eventually others as well, to fail. Financial panic then spreads around the globe, bringing world trade and commerce to a crawl, much as happened during the Great Depression...
Certainly, Robbins does not miss the panic that comes with working on a musical when time and money are running out. "It's like those descriptions of galaxies spinning apart," he says. "Everyone is going a million miles an hour in opposite directions." His opinion is shared by his mentor, Balanchine, who once created dances for musicals (including the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet for Rodgers and Hart's 1936 On Your Toes) but has not been back to Broadway in nearly 30 years...
...players began to file into the shower, and someone even yelled for a towel. It didn't seem fair, but then losers' dressing rooms never do. The key now is not to panic, but to get the experience needed to make this a team that can say "we did it" instead of "we played so well...
Credit for the B.C. resurgence goes to a balanced offensive attack, the leadership of captain Steve Barger, steady goaltending from Doug Ellis and the poised demeanor of a team that doesn't panic and relies on consistency and depth to overcome weaker clubs even when lacking intensity...