Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BECAME very concerned two days ago when a friend called me up needing help. Did I have any foolproof methods for waking up in the morning, he asked. When I suggested that he use an alarm, he called me hard-hearted and insensitive. It seemed he was in serious trouble: he had slept through two finals at midyear, losing all credibility with UHS. "I don't necessarily want to take my midterms--I just have to be awake to attend them," he told...
...found that hard-sleepers fall into two categories: those who hear the alarm, but shut it to off, and those (in greater jeopardy) who never hear it at all--dead-weights. I can only offer assistance to the former group...
...primary objective in waking alarm-killers is to get them out of bed before they can get to the alarm. Obviously, the first step is to put the alarm out of reach, which over sleepers do in a variety of ways. By far, the most common tactic for setting the alarm out of reach is the across-the-room technique. On a cold winter morning, running across the room to turn off a blaring alarm is stimulating, to say the least. Of course, the morning air can shock your body so that you immediately jump back in bed after shutting...
...breadth and brashness of Hawke's ambitions alarm some Australians as much as they delight others. The new contender is at once an urbane Rhodes scholar and a combative political gladhander, an articulate negotiator and a reformed alcoholic. He first attracted attention as president of the influential Australian Council of Trade Unions (A.C.T.U.) from 1970 to 1980. Even before Hawke was elected to Parliament, a 1979 poll revealed him as Australia's favorite choice for Prime Minister. When at last he did join Parliament two years ago, he was, he said, determined not to "warm...
Students here at Harvard are not the only ones plagued by midnight fire alarms. First year residents of newly constructed dormitories at Stanford University have had so many rude awakenings that officials there have been forced to change their smoke alarm system...