And earnings season is a time when you see panic-driven buying and selling on display.
Fears of a European sovereign debt default and contagion have led to indiscriminate panic-selling.
These weaker players may have panic-sold last week, but this remains to be seen.
The path of least resistance for the panic-stricken has often been to blame some unfortunate minority.
Newspapers presented sweeping claims about thousands or even millions of panic-stricken Americans, but offered little supporting documentation.
They tried to - in a panic - get things back on track with only six months to go in office.
The proper response would have been a focus on long-term spending control and pro-growth policies, not a panic-based, growth-discouraging tax hike.
Officials stressed that children would have to drink a lot of it before it harmed them and urged people not to panic-buy.
However panic-stricken they are, Iraqi asylum-seekers do not simply show up anywhere.
Even in the PPP, which accepted Mr Zardari as its leader in the panic-stricken wake of Ms Bhutto 2007 death, many despise him.
As dire news buffeted financial markets in the first nine weeks of 2009, panic-stricken investors dumped shares of even the most stable U.S. banks.
This inspires panic--because the financial assets of Americans of all income levels tend to peak when they reach their early 60s and decline thereafter.
Weiss, who wrote a book, "Taking Care of Your Girls, " about breast health, said teens and young women should be aware, but not panic-stricken.
Only the resilience of Wall Street and the stoicism of local punters like Maria Tsang seem to have calmed the panic -- for now.
The subtext of the movie seems to be that regardless of how outwardly panic-stricken he may seem in the process, what Woody wants, Woody gets.
By reducing the panic-induced part of widening credit-spreads, the new liquidity tools mitigate the damage that dysfunctional credit markets would otherwise wreak on the economy.
They are supported not just by their colleagues in neighbouring countries, but by a growing number of panic-stricken economists at banks, hedge funds and brokerages.
In the meantime, we wouldn't panic -- if the trickery hasn't been a significant issue since 2007, there isn't likely to be a sudden outbreak today.
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So, while the stock market clearly remains in a downtrend, our take on the tea leaves is we managed to move away from panic-mode on Tuesday.
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Markets in Europe and the U.S. that seemed to top out in mid-February, plunged further in almost panic-like selling in reaction to the disaster in Japan.
However, crude oil prices went into a free fall and the U.S. dollar index soared, which ultimately led to panic-type selling in most markets, including gold and silver.
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This smacks more than anything else of panic-driven short covering.
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Worse, despite fire alarms going off all over the place, operators had shut down the reactor slowly by hand instead of hitting the panic-button to close the reactor immediately.
But unfounded, panic-evoking, worst-case conjectures are unwarranted and irresponsible.
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On that fateful day, among the panic-stricken mob at the Havana airport, his mother took off her jewelry and handed it to Jorge's tearful grandmother to prevent security guards from confiscating it.
George Hood was panic-stricken one day in November when illusionist David Blaine, dehydrated and weak after spending 52 hours in a spinning gyroscope over Times Square in Manhattan, suddenly crashed through a supporting platform.
Granted, it's not as arresting as Momento - this one has a linear narrative, so comparisons maybe unfair - but the superb direction and panic-driven editing lift this thriller way above its multiplex neighbours.
Mr Brown also said that he hoped that the dispute between management and workers at the Grangemouth refinery - which has led to fears of panic-buying and fuel shortages - could be settled by arbitration.
So imagine what went through the minds of the panic-stricken security teams when she suddenly ordered her bomb-proof Jaguar to stop so that she could plunge into the crowds thronging the pavements around Donegal Square.
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