Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following the missiles, fear and alarm. "The second cold war has begun," shrilled the Italian weekly Panorama. French President François Mitterrand warned that the situation was comparable in gravity with the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 or the Berlin blockade of 1948-49. American Sovietologist Seweryn Bialer, who has just returned from Moscow, where he had extensive interviews with Soviet officials, observes that "a test is coming between the superpowers. The Soviets are frustrated, angry. They have to reassert their manhood, to regain the influence in the international arena that today only America enjoys...
...modest proposal. General Motors, the world's largest automaker, would hook up with Toyota, the No. 3, to build some 200,000 small cars a year in a now closed Chevrolet plant outside San Francisco. When it was announced last February, the plan provoked cries of alarm from rival car manufacturers and set off an intensive Federal Trade Commission review. Last week, after GM and Toyota signed an agreement stating that they would abide by U.S. antitrust laws, the FTC gave the green light to the venture...
...Breen said the University would hold off making further changes in the alarm system until results of a recent "experiment" in Lowell House are make available. The alarms there were recently re-calibrated and cleared of dust, he explained...
Some students are making the best of the false alarms. A questionnaire recently circulated in Adams House making students when the preferred fire alarms to take place, whether the alarm should occur more frequently than they have, and in which enteric in the House the alarms should ideally sound...
Meanwhile, the Administration is voicing increasing alarm about El Salvador's notorious death squads, which, according to El Salvador's Human Rights Commission, have killed an estimated 40,000 people during the past four years. In a speech to a group of Salvadoran business leaders two weeks ago, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering warned bluntly that U.S. aid would be halted if the Salvadoran government did not make a greater effort to stop the killing. When Pickering's predecessor in San Salvador, Deane Hinton, delivered a similar speech in October 1982, he was reprimanded by the White House...