Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale twice expressed alarm that if a Star Wars defense were ever actually deployed, "for the first time we would delegate to computers the decision as to whether to start a war." Defense experts contend that a Star Wars defense would rely no more heavily on computers to give warning of an impending missile attack than present deterrent strategy does. The greatest danger of nuclear devastation because of computer error would arise if false signals tempted a President to order not the use of defensive weapons but a retaliatory nuclear strike...
Marsden says that about two of every three reports he recieves end up being a "false alarm," but most of these are just honest mistakes...
...wakes up to the sound of his high powered Sanyo alarm. By 8:15 a.m. he's taken a shower and is styling his hair with the latest in Panasonic blow dryer technology. By 8:30 he's on his way to work in his Toyota, and by 9 he's seated comfortably behind his Sony computer...
Subtle shifts in physical and mental health leave their mark on presidential actions. Without his throbbing back would Kennedy have been quite so glum after his 1961 Vienna summit with Nikita Khrushchev and spread so much alarm in the country? Hindsight suggests that the U.S. may have done a little more nervous saber rattling that summer than the situation in Berlin really required...
...minister's quandary results from growing public alarm over child abuse, which has led to numerous state laws requiring anyone who knows about such a crime to inform authorities. In at least 20 states, toughened child-abuse laws have eliminated the longstanding legal and societal recognition of the "clergy-penitent privilege." Mellish would face no legal trouble if the crime were murder or rape; clergy in Florida are forced to testify only concerning abuse of children, the aged and the handicapped. His jailing, however brief, has prompted united interreligious support, with Roman Catholic priests and Jewish rabbis joining Protestants...