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  • There was no fiery tirade in the locker room, no panic-button revamping of the entire game plan.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • And there's no quicker path to the reactionary panic-button in a ditto-head's brainstem than threatening their right to carry weapons of various shapes and sizes into national parks, museums, schools, churches, and public urinals.

    Smearing Sonia 2009

  • It was astonishing to watch Condi Rice hit the panic-button as soon as Iran's foreign-minister offered to give up "industrial enrichment" of uranium if the IAEA would refrain from bringing the case before the Security Council.

    Bush��s Roadblock at the Security Council 2006

  • Give-and-take debating can indeed help your kids accept that you and your spouse have your own styles and opinions, along with distinctive parenting features such as boiling point, panic-button sensitivity, and voice volume.

    You’re a Better Parent Than You Think! Raymond N. Guarendi 1985

  • Give-and-take debating can indeed help your kids accept that you and your spouse have your own styles and opinions, along with distinctive parenting features such as boiling point, panic-button sensitivity, and voice volume.

    You’re a Better Parent Than You Think! Raymond N. Guarendi 1985

  • He'd briefed me on night signals, rations, panic-button limits, the whole of the access routine.

    The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975

  • Small changes enough to keep aging seniors in homes Shirley Saathoff, 72, uses a panic-button pendant and two-way communication system at her home in Lee's Summit, Mo.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Saathoff pays $34.95 a month to lease the panic-button service, which includes a two-way communication unit smaller than a cereal box.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Shirley Saathoff, for example, got a small panic-button pendant and two-way communication system for her tidy Lee's Summit home.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • Shirley Saathoff, for example, got a small panic-button pendant and two-way communication system for her tidy Lee's Summit, Mo., home.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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