As her doctor gave her the diagnosis, "I was in a state of panic, " she says.

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Stockmarkets, which seemed in a state of panic on August 16th, have recovered some of their poise.

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The reason that otherwise intelligent people are willing to make such obviously absurd statements is because they are in a state of panic.

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The organisers were in a state of panic as the famously purse-lipped dowager Queen Mary was due to watch the match and Moran was accused of bringing vulgarity into tennis.

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"I was in a state of panic, because I didn't want to leave him in the orphanage because I knew they didn't have medication to take care of him, " Madonna said.

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By now I was in a state of panic.

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Samuel Yang, JA Solar's chief executive, went so far as to characterize the market as being in a state of "panic".

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They have been in a state of quiet panic as the date for their possible abandonment approaches, says Mohammad Ashraf Haidari, of the country's National Security Council.

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Correspondents say defeat for Mr Romney in what is effectively his home state would sow panic in the Republican establishment and increase the chances of a messy, drawn-out end to the nomination process.

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