Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...IRONIC that many liberals have now joined the conservatives they once ridiculed in sounding the alarm against a new approach to America's military and social dilemmas...
...risk? Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, said they are not especially endangered as a group, and that long-term coffee use is far more dangerous than sporadic caffeine concentrations. Wacker said that the study was "dealing with fairly small numbers" and hence unworthy of alarm. He added that if coffee drinking does cause heart trouble, it is certainly not as dangerous to consumers as tobacco addiction...
...Timely Beeper, also known as False Alarm, is sold by the Sharper Image, a San Francisco firm that has a mail-order catalog and several retail stores. Since it was introduced three months ago, several thousand have been sold. The product was created by Eugene Grant, 67, the founder of Omega Contract Design, a California-based designer of aerospace products. The notion came to him one day, when he found himself restless in church. Says Grant: "There I was listening to one homily after another. Meanwhile I was dying to go fishing." When a fellow churchgoer's beeper went...
Five fire trucks and 17 firefighters yesterday responded to an alarm from the owner of Elsie's Restaurant after smoke poured out from beneath the floor...
...discrimination to the suffering of the world's AIDS victims. Headlines in Europe have proclaimed the disease's spread with dire warnings of a new plague. This has led Professor Carlo de Bac, secretary of the Italian League to Combat Virus Diseases, to complain that journalists are creating "unjustified alarm and panic worthy of the Dark Ages." But there has been at least one positive result of the increased, if distorted, public awareness of the malady: it has galvanized many foreign governments into action, and they are for the first time distributing information on the dangers of the disease. Moreover...