Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Harvard began installing the smoke alarm system in January, when the ordinance took effect, half of the rooms in the College's Houses remain without detectors, according to Harvard officials...
GLOBAL INSECURITY is supposed to be a wake-up alarm for the American people. However, with that alarm, the audience wants the news. In other words, Yergin and his co-authors have detailed the potential danger. Now, we want to know what we can do about it. They lay out a program, but it is not as comprehensive or cogent as their documentation of the problem. Yergin points to three main objectives: diversification of oil supplies, substitution by other energy sources, and energy conservation. The third goal is the basis for the book--what consumers and businesses with some government...
...morning after, national trends are often difficult to discern in mid-term elections. There is a certain wisdom in House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local." Yet across the country this fall, the campaign cacophony of pointing with pride and viewing with alarm will largely focus on where the action has been the past two years: the state of the economy and the remarkable shift in domestic policy inaugurated by Reagan in January...
...sale. It has denounced the agreement as a "contravention of the letter and spirit of the [1979] Taiwan Relations Act" that pledged the U.S. to supply Taiwan with weapons for its defense. And in the U.S., conservatives who regard support for Taiwan as an article of faith were voicing alarm. "It's one more little country we have doublecrossed," lamented Arizona Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. Declared North Carolina Republican Senator Jesse Helms, leader of the New Right: "I can't imagine any foreign policy acts that will disappoint more friends of Ronald Reagan...
...briefcase can even be used as a shield. Its tough synthetic fabric will withstand a .357 magnum bullet. To stymie any attempts to steal all this James Bond gadgetry, there is also an alarm that will sound six seconds after the case is ripped from the owner's grasp...