Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Socialists, though rebuffed, could gain some solace from the fact that their steady decline since 1982 might have leveled off. For its part, the right, though victorious, was made distinctly uneasy by the success of the renegade Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose National Front sounded a belligerent anti-immigration alarm to win support among disaffected workers in the industrial urban centers of the south...
...further the deception, according to Dr. John Hobbins of Yale School of Medicine. Early shots of the fetus seem to be run at a slow speed, but when the abortion instruments are introduced, the film is speeded up, creating the illusion that the fetus is thrashing about in alarm. Actually, says Hobbins, "the fetus appears to be acting in a perfectly normal fashion. It's just technical flimflam." Also misleading is the size of the ultrasound image and the doll- like model used in some scenes to represent the fetus. It gives the impression that the twelve-week-old fetus...
Those statistics may be cause for alarm among governing technocrats, but most Soviet citizens measure the reality of their country's inefficiency and mismanagement by a different yardstick, the daily diet of small and not-so- small bureaucratic horror stories. Some examples...
...over to a van full of out-of-town celebrants headed back to Mamou and turned his horse over to another rider. Tim said he had had eleven beers. In town the boy's mother saw her child slumped in a car packed with strangers. "Tim," she shouted with alarm, "what are you doing in there...
...smoke alarm is totally ineffectual anyway," said Andrew N. Hultkrans '88, who sleeps on the loft. "It is so high up that we would all asphyxiate from smoke before the alarm went...