Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Certain circumstances or events will seem catastrophic, may they be the end of a relationship, a term paper grade or the outcome of an election. But kept in perspective, things are never as bad as they may seem. In March of my freshman year, for example, I began to panic. For the first time since I had arrived at school, I felt that certain tables at Annenberg were off limits to me simply because I hadn't yet met the students sitting at them. I figured that I had attended the school for nearly seven months and if I hadn...
...morning, I come into work, relatively chipper and ready to face the day. Problem is, more mornings than not, I'm met with the dispiriting news that a new high-tech bug is stalking my computer. By 10:30 or so, I've reached a state of low-grade panic; I have a third cup of coffee and imagine the virus circling my e-mail in-box like a vulture hunting for injured prey. And I know I'm in for it, because let's face facts: In the grand scheme of the Internet world, I'm roughly the equivalent...
...TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl doesn't see any signs that Greenspan got any more than he bargained for. "The markets are having a little panic about how much this slowdown will affect earnings," he said (although investors warmed up again in the afternoon when Greenspan announced that technology -- gasp! -- was good for productivity). "But right now, it doesn't look like any more than the soft landing, from 5 percent growth to about 3.5 percent, that the Fed has been trying to engineer." In fact, says Baumohl, there are some on the Fed's Open Market Committee...
...Thank Dorm Crew. As a first-year Matthew forgot about Valentine's Day until the last minute. Late in the day, in a panic, he ordered so many roses to be delivered that he was still paying off the debt by year's end. In fact, he says, those flowers were the reason he decided to stay and earn some money working for dorm crew...
...phobias, --panic attacks...