Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick guided tours-hurt the Administration itself. Whenever the press is excluded, speculation and rumor take over. Several days after the invasion there was still determined resistance here and there, but no one knew how much, how serious or by whom. The result was vague and nagging alarm, a suspicion that the world's largest military power had trouble subduing a flyspeck island. However that impression might be dispelled later, some of the damage will linger. More important, the Administration's case for the invasion rests increasingly on the assertion that the Cubans had been attempting to transform...
...attack began at exactly 6:20 a.m., when a red pickup truck approached the Beirut airport, where most of the 1,600-man Marine contingent in Lebanon is based. As the vehicle turned left into the parking lot, a Marine guard reported with alarm that it was gathering speed. Then, in a lightning move, the truck charged toward the entrance of the four-story building, hit the sandbagged guard post, burst through a barrier and vaulted another wall of sandbags into the lobby. It exploded with a deafening roar, destroying the building. Minutes later, the second blast rocked the French...
...Crimson's alarm finally went off with seven seconds left in the first, and it didn't take much more time for Harvard to put the Tigers...
...sign of a vibrant, confident country; a weak one is considered an indication that a nation is on the skids. For nearly three years the U.S. dollar has been riding high, perhaps too high and for too long. Now the almighty dollar's very robustness is creating alarm both in the U.S. and abroad. Says Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "As the ancient Greeks said, 'An individual's faults are virtues carried to excess.' When the dollar is excessively strong, it hurts our trade and that hurts jobs in the U.S. Too much of a good thing...
...find marvelous things going on and not so marvelous things going on." Any report card on the public schools would have to consider at least four major areas: curriculum and standards, teaching, funding and community support. In all of them, there is cause for rejoicing as well as alarm...