Word: alarmable
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...second report of white powder, at MIT’s Human Resources Department, proved to be a false alarm, according to a statement by David Diamond of the MIT Medical Department. The powder turned out to be dust from construction...
...think we need to recognize the cyclical nature of this story: We keep passing these milestones after the attacks - Thursday was the one-month anniversary - and so each time that happens, alarm is going to spike briefly...
...remember walking past the elevator before and hearing the ringing [of the alarm] and thinking it was just something the elevator does,” Subin said...
...waited several minutes and when nothing happened, he pushed the alarm button, which made a loud ringing sound in the elevator shaft. But thinking that passersby might find the sound routine, he decided to begin to ring the bell in a SOS pattern to attract attention...
...difficult to pull off--to a series of smaller attacks that could be just as damaging to the U.S. economy and public morale. How serious are these threats? What form might they take? The best guesses of the experts consulted by TIME offer both reassurance and fresh cause for alarm...