People started to panic and run toward the door.

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The disorders run the gamut from panic attacks and specific phobias to obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, a random kind of worry described as free-floating and relentless.

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But even a modest official devaluation might have encouraged ordinary Russians to panic too, producing a full-blown run on the currency.

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The news anchor was conducting a telephone interview with a Dahab tourism industry worker who'd run out of his hotel in panic after hearing one of the three explosions.

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Rumours swirl and panic flares: shares in BNP Paribas, a well-run French bank, dropped by 12% on the morning of September 13th following reports that no one would lend it dollars.

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Will the mild run on Spanish and Greek banks turn into a full-fledged panic?

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