Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then it is time to go to the clinic. The doctor says not to eat after midnight on the night before. Not to drink either. He tells you that the clinic opens at 7:30 and usually gets crowded by mid-morning, so you set the alarm for 6, and you go to bed early and lie there most of the night, thinking about waking up and finding blood on the sheets or having cancer and dying or dying on the way to the subway tomorrow morning...
...been inspected in two years, and its U.S. Coast Guard certificate of inspection had expired on Dec. 27. Two Coast Guard officers were on their way from Providence to recertify the rig when last week's storm hit. Only nine days before the accident, an abandon-ship alarm was sounded when a valve for one of the Ocean Ranger's 16 ballast tanks was inadvertently opened by a crew member and the rig developed a 5° list...
Mobil officials say the alarm incident was a result of "human error" and was "totally unrelated" to the tragic events of last week. Mobil has suspended all drilling operations off Newfoundland and is calling in its two other rigs in the area, the Sedco 706 and the Zapata Ugland, for inspection as a "precautionary measure...
Those deep deficits and steep interest rates alarm TIME's economists...
...year-old man slipped into the building, closed for Washington's Birthday, and wandered around until he tripped the alarm...