Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building's smoke alarm did not go off, but patrons filed outside, white the stage crew repaired the wiring. After a ten-minute wait, the audience re-entered and watched the remainder of the play...
...hours of Saturday morning six gunmen, clad in black jumpsuits and woolen ski masks, raced up to the Brinks-mat Depot No. 7 in a drab row of industrial warehouses near Heathrow Airport, 15 miles west of London. Without apparent difficulty, they slipped past the searchlights and highly sophisticated alarm system that guard the building. Once inside, the intruders overpowered seven security men, handcuffing five of them together. The other two were less fortunate: the gunmen pistol-whipped one; they slashed through the other's shirt, tickled his stomach with a knife and then poured gasoline over his body...
Monday, November 27: At 4:30 pm fire department units, Harvard police and university engineers responded to a fire alarm in Winthrop House. The fire, caused by a pan of burning meat, was quickly extinguished. Firemen and police together aired the building of thick smoke that had accumulated...
Despite these success stories, the fiscal fate of many states is still uncertain. One alarm bell is the dangerously low level of reserve funds. Georgia's protective surplus stands at $9 million, the lowest level in 15 years. "That would run the state government for about six hours," says Clark Stevens, director of the Governor's office of planning and budget. In even worse shape is Mississippi, which is looking at a $120 million deficit in fiscal 1984, despite $250 million in pared spending. "We've cut all the fat we can," laments outgoing Democratic Governor William...
Despite the growing alarm, Congress rushed to adjourn last week without facing up to the budget dilemma. The consequences of such inaction could be severe. Even if the infant recovery survives, it may grow up deformed, with some parts of the economy performing far worse than others. Onerous interest rates could stall comebacks by the housing and auto industries. The high cost of borrowing money could depress capital spending and thus continue to devastate key business sectors such as steel, construction equipment and machine tools, which have barely begun to climb out of a deep slump...