An online report that Lil Wayne was near death and on life support Friday cause panic among his fans and caused Twitter to light up with messages of concern.
Then there is the obfuscatory nature of bureaucracies (government, businesses and the media), that hides facts for reasons both good (not wanting to cause a panic) and bad (self-interest).
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The most recent (spring of 2010) many-big-declines readings we see in Figures 3 and 4 are not cause for panic.
"We are therefore passing a strong message to all those who may want to cause unnecessary fear and panic among members of the public that the long arm of the law will soon catch up with them, " he said.
Some believe that full disclosure could cause locals to panic and foreign tourists to stay away.
He said the defendant must have realised the message would cause "fear, inconvenience and panic".
Then they have to panic sell and that could cause a landslide.
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Moral hazard and excessive intervention could cause a steep sell-off in Treasury and Dollar markets, causing further panic.
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If you elect treatment with an antidepressant, make sure that your clinician starts you on the lowest dose possible, because -- paradoxically -- antidepressants can cause panic attacks when they are first taken and can certainly worsen them in people already afflicted.
In The Wall Street Journal opinions section, a group of 16 scientists, including former professors and chiefs of several atmospheric research institutes, have argued boldly that global warming is no cause for panic, claiming that the mean temperature of the Earth has not changed for more than a decade.
They cause asset "bubbles" when they move in massively and asset price destruction when they exit in panic.
The threat of being wiped out in bankruptcy could cause creditors to flee both the troubled firm and any firms like it, precisely the sort of panic the resolution regime is meant to avoid.
Of course mad panic might cause problems because a bank always lends a proportion of its customers' money and it simply doesn't have enough to pay them all.
In which case, if you take them all over all at once, you cause less damage than if you would if you took over a couple now, and created so much confusion and panic and nervousness.
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