Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Burton calmed down quickly after his first eruption, returned to his seat and buckled up. But panic washed over him again as the plane descended, and he stood in the aisle. A flight attendant, assuming he was just a nervous flyer, asked if he needed anything. "I'm fine," he told her. "It's just the drugs...
...good thing and misusing it. Consider stock buybacks. For decades they were a comforting, surefire sign of management confidence. After the crash in 1987, hundreds of companies initiated plans to spend billions on their own dirt-cheap shares. That inspired investors to do the same and helped stanch the panic--a good thing. Today, though, buybacks can be more about funding management's stock options than about signaling its resolve...
...year-old patent, granted sole American distribution rights to the Population Council, a nonprofit organization specializing in reproductive issues, with the understanding the group would conduct clinical trials and find a manufacturer for the drug. And after six years of research and more than a few last-minute panic attacks from would-be manufacturing companies, the moment has arrived. The Population Council concluded a hugely successful drug trial in which 92 percent of the participants achieved successful medical abortions - the remaining 8 percent required surgical intervention to complete the procedure. Within the study, two thirds of women who'd previously...
...year-old pill, granted sole American distribution rights to the Population Council, a nonprofit organization specializing in reproductive issues, with the understanding that the group would conduct clinical trials and find a manufacturer for the drug. After six years of research and more than a few last-minute panic attacks from would-be manufacturing companies, the moment of reckoning has arrived: The Population Council has concluded a hugely successful drug trial in which 92 percent of the participants achieved a "favorable" outcome and a marketing group, Banco Laboratories, and manufacturer (the name of which remains anonymous) have been pinpointed...
...Greenspan well knows from his interest-rate games, the markets tend to absorb this kind of thing pretty fast. Policy moves get discounted, suspense turns to panic, intentions quickly get buried in expectations. A month is a very long time for traders and investors to sit with this significant a policy shift, and how it all shakes out in the labyrinthine land of puts, calls, options and futures is really anybody's guess. Gore and Clinton have put themselves at the mercy of a mob whose ways they can't possibly fathom, and if they're smart they...