Word: panic
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...looking candy store in hopes of buying chocolates for their children. The shortages are worse than usual these days, because of hoarding inspired by Solidarity's strike threats last month. "People are buying three or four times what they need," complained a Warsaw housewife. The shortages, combined with panic buying, last week caused the government to introduce rationing of meat and butter. The endless lines, as always, are a source of a Polish staple-black humor. One recent joke: If the Russians invade, why will they send our economic planners to Siberia...
...would 'fan an already raging inflation; a "credit crunch" caused by excessive Government borrowing to cover the deficits, leaving little loanable money for businessmen and consumers. They also prophesied that unless the Iran-Iraq war ends speedily, world oil inventories will disappear by February or March, leading to "panic" price boosts-perhaps to as much as $50 per bbl. from $32 now-and a return of the shortages and gasoline lines...
...depends on how you behave. Your storage tanks have been overflowing. If your oil companies act responsibly and start drawing down these stocks to head off unnecessary panic, I think you'll get through this winter without price increases like those in 1979. If you keep stocks at present levels, the price will go up to at least...
...tension. Justin Kaplan appropriately spends a good part of his splendid biography creating the contexts for Whitman's experiences. On May 31, 1819, Kaplan tells us, Napoleon was dying of cancer on St. Helena, Virginian James Monroe was strutting about a rebuilt White House in knee breeches, a financial panic was threatening the young nation--and Walter and Louisa Whitman had their second child, named after his father but always called "Walt" by members of the family...
...intense was the recruiting war for Walker that the mere sight of an out-of-state coach in Wrightsville could set off a small panic. When a man named John Robinson checked into a hotel in nearby Macon, local newspapers announced with alarm that the University of Southern California's coach had come to cart Walker away. John Robinson turned out to be a salesman from Huntsville...