Churn spikes, panic sets in, analysis is done to uncover the problem, success people are hired.
In moments of extreme adrenalin-spike panic, you run some weird escape options.
A spike of panic shot through the Sufi schools, where young men like Siyad Mohammed Ali were studying Islamic philosophy.
That causes a spike of panic, and I shove again, much harder, and the window comes free.
At which point anyone familiar with that recent Citroën television advertising campaign may experience a momentary spike of panic, fearing that the car is about to transform into a robot - with you still wrapped in it.
Severe weather shocks could cause further spikes, induce panic buying, prompt countries to close their borders to food exports and even lead to riots and revolutions.
Tens of thousands were involved, and on crowded Midtown streets where the evacuees milled about, spikes of panic were observed -- weeping, anger, even some fights -- that seemed to reflect confusion, irritation and exasperation rather than fear, a kind of psychic reaction to the long days of high tension.
Spiking oil prices panic the Fed to overreact, but $70 per barrel oil is a heavy cross for the economy to bear, and it raises the cost of doing business everywhere.
In effect, Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues have decided to accept an all-but-certain downside — high unemployment, for years to come — rather than risk an even worse situation — a market panic, a spike in long-term interest rates and yet higher unemployment.
Mike Hudson, a meteorologist with the service, said river levels would probably go back up to a second crest level in mid-April, but a much lower one — perhaps by three feet or more — than the panic-inducing spike hit last weekend.
Gold is a story of tremendous spikes -- when people panic about inflation or currency debasement -- and harrowing collapses, once sound currency returns.
