At the height of the financial panic of 1907, Teddy Roosevelt, who had done much to bring the panic about by inveighing against big business, at least had the good sense to stick to his bear hunt and let J.

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By the end of the weekend, enough had been done to prevent panic.

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When growth falters - as it has done recently - politicians panic.

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"We didn't panic and that's something we've done, but we didn't, " coach Doc Rivers said.

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"Think back to May 2006 when India spun into the toilet and imagine how well you would have done by calmly buying good companies on the dips and waiting for the panic attack to die down, " says John Christy, editor of the Forbes International Investment Report.

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Legislators are palpably in a panic at the prospect of facing voters in a few months having done nothing meaningful to bring down prices at the pump.

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