Word: alarmable
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...change from the politics of the past, and he won a short-lived victory in 1994 before his center-right allies turned against him. When he returned for a second term in 2001, and refused to resolve a mammoth conflict of interest linked to his media and financial holdings, alarm bells went off across Europe. Though he used his power to push through laws that favored his business interests, and allowed him to wriggle out of lingering court cases, fears that Italy's basic democratic institutions were at risk turned out to be unfounded...
...joyous party that we had wished it to be." Hours later, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security held a press conference to announce that the authorities had nabbed two terrorists groups in Xinjiang that had "attempted to carry out sabotage to undermine the Beijing Olympic Games." Despite Beijing's alarm, however, some observers are looking at this unveiled terror threat with a skeptical...
...security, the "Framework" declaration calls for a "focus on the very real dangers that confront both our nations." But seven years after Bush and Putin first met, Russia and the U.S. don't agree on their prime security threats. Throughout his tenure, Putin has sounded the alarm on NATO's encircling of his country. Much as he has the grounds to decry the West's broken word, given back in the 1990s, NATO is engaged in Afghanistan against forces that would ultimately threaten Russia's southern flank. Putin even allows NATO to use Russian territory for logistics, and approved...
...imitations, in films from The Killing, Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job to The Usual Suspects, Mission: Impossible 2 and that mini-masterpiece of stop-motion animation, Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers. If some star is hanging from a rope over riches protected by a sophisticated alarm system, there's no one but Dassin to thank for it. An official remake of Rififi is due out next year, with Al Pacino...
...movie has plenty of familiar faces - and voices - for Latin audiences. Ubiquitous L.A. disc jockey El Cucuy blares on the alarm clock, the rock group Kinky sings the corrido "Superman es Ilegal," and the band Los Tigres del Norte pick up a hitchhiking Carlito...