Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...economy is also especially vulnerable to shock waves from overseas. A panic in Japan's superheated real estate market would shake Japanese lenders and help trigger a global slump. So could the chaos that would ensue if the Soviet Union's restive republics plunge that country into civil...
...report is no reason to panic -- or even to lose sleep. If there is a cancer risk, it is a small one. The evidence is still so controversial that the draft stirred a great deal of debate within the Bush Administration, and the EPA released it over strong objections from the Pentagon and the White House. But now no one can deny that the issue must be taken seriously and that much more research is needed...
Wary of pouring money down a sinkhole, Bush promised to send over experts in food distribution to prevent the Western supplies from rotting in warehouses alongside this year's Soviet harvest. The goal is to ease the panic of Soviet shoppers, who daily confront empty shelves in government stores. Experts believe hoarding, born of fear, is exacerbating the shortages -- and that cannot be solved by credits alone. "If the problem isn't with how much they can grow, the solution isn't going to be in how much more they can buy abroad," notes Richard Feltes, vice president of Chicago...
However, the dean added that the GSAS would take no action until it had contacted the Department of Education. "We need to wait and see how this all sorts out before we panic and restructure something that has been very effective for us," she said...
HOARDING. Stores have been battered in recent weeks by waves of panic buying ; that have periodically cleaned shelves of sugar, milk, flour, matches and other staples. As a Moscow housewife sheepishly confesses, "My kitchen is loaded with cereals, and my bathroom is piled with soap. I can barely turn around in my apartment." The hysteria often reflects fears about the future, but it creates immediate problems...