Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...circulated last week by the Project on Military Procurement, a nonprofit defense sector watchdog, the report analyzes the computer system that was supposed to seek out the infrared "signatures" of enemy targets. In fact, the computer would have run up, in the report's words, "a monumental false alarm rate," and might be fooled by even the most primitive measures, like camouflaging tanks with branches of trees...
...more reliable and intelligent than much of the U.S. press. It is not so much anti-American as it is pro-German. NATO planning envisions using all of West Germany for a battleground and dumping place for U.S. troops and nuclear weapons; the Germans view this policy with justifiable alarm. America will be getting many rude shocks until it realizes that the cold war is a war that most of the world would gladly...
...protecting the middle class, or the man who is retired and lives with his wife on a pension." A survey commissioned earlier this year by Security Distributing and Marketing, a trade publication, found that of some 42 million homes in the U.S., no fewer than 3 million had residential-alarm installations. Some 2 million of those were homes worth $100,000 or less...
...typical electronic surveillance system costs about $3,000. For that the homeowner gets a network of sensors that can detect break-ins. An intruder sets off a piercingly loud alarm and triggers a signal in the central monitoring station or at a police station. Charges for the monitoring service: about $30 a month...
...York City last week, visitors flocked to one of the largest displays of high-technology protection gear ever assembled. The vast and ear-splitting array was on view at the International Security Conference and Exposition. Among devices in the more-than-500-booth exhibit was a $2,000 alarm made by Texas-based Sennet Systems that is equipped with a computer-synthesized voice. When activated, the unit can phone a homeowner anywhere in the U.S. and use its 256-word vocabulary to alert him to the precise nature of a security problem. Linear Corp. of Inglewood, Calif., showed...