1.   Although National Party parliamentary leader Jim Bolger denounced the agreement as a panic move, it was widely welcomed in many quarters.

2.   But after she took a quick head count, and found not enough votes for a panic move of stripping Gardner of his authority, she scrapped the notion.

3.   No panic moves that forfeited future talent or upended the operating budget.

4.   Robert Goodman, chief economist at Putnam Investments in Boston, warned that the latest inter-session rate move could imply a kind of panic move by the Fed.

5.   That would be a panic move.

6.   Its announcement surprised analysts who saw it as a panic move amid signs of a slowing economy and falling consumption in the pre-Christmas period.