Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University should also start negotiations with the city to install more lights and emergency alarm boxes on the route to the Quad. A University check paid to the order of the city of Cambridge might speed the process. In the meantime, the University police should come up with the safest combination of walking and driving escort service; then expand it to make sure no student need walk home alone...
...Semple acted fast. In a six-way conference call with Dorati at his home in Switzerland, board members urged the maestro to come back, at least for this season. Pleased with the furor he had created, Dorati agreed: "The city had to wake up and I sounded the alarm clock." He plans to do more than that. Next April 9, his 75th birthday, Dorati will donate $50,000 to the orchestra. Says he: "There are quite a few people in Detroit who, if they gave in the same proportion to their own wealth, would have to come up with...
...Cambridge, landing on Lechmere Point the night of April 18th, 1775. Silently they crept over the causeway (now. Gore St.). Their movement would have gone unnoticed save for one British regular who took sick and found his way to a house near the point. From there, the alarm was given, explaining why the Cambridge militia were among the first aroused...
Griffin said the two workers "chose the worst possible place" to saw the board, adding that written instructions could have averted the accidental alarm...
...alarm required the use of two engines and one ladder company...