Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Fire Protection Engineer, David E. Breen, called incidents of yesterday's type infrequent, although he said the Claverly Hall alarm system was set off two years ago because of similar water pressure problems with the subway construction on Mass...
...Snow, the British scientist and novelist, sounded the alarm in the 1950s about the dangers of two cultures: "Literary intellectuals at one pole, at the other scientists." Since then, microchips, satellites and nuclear power have become realities that define everyday life; yet many supposedly well-educated people do not understand how they work. Despite the growing use of computers in classrooms, American universities are still graduating millions of technological illiterates...
...residents of Lowell House have been subjected to 46 false alarms so far this fall. While living in the midst of the renovations has been convenient, the smoke detector's seeming inability to distinguish between a six-alarm inferno and a cockroach breaking wind has become an intolerable imposition. It is incredible that something that disrupts the live of four hundred and fifty people has been allowed to continue this long...
...ROOMMATES ALARM CLOCK invariably begins chuping and buzzing at the worst possible time of the morning--about 45 precious minutes before I had planned to awake. To make matters worse, my roommate also likes to start the day with a burst of WEEI news radio. I have come to hate those monotonous traffic reports and the incessant simulated clacking of typewriters in the background. Tuesday morning, though the static aired an advertisement so intriguing that I cut through my early morning fog long enough to listen...
Bossert noted that the problem may be the installation of the Lowell House system rather than the system itself since Winthrop's Standish Hall has the same alarm system but has not had Lowell House's problems...