Word: alarmed
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CAPE CANAVERAL: John Glenn is back in space. After a couple of last-minute glitches ? a minor air pressure alarm in the cockpit and a couple of private aircraft in the vicinity ? space shuttle Discovery blasted off a mere 20 minutes behind schedule on an otherwise clear, cloudless launch day. "I feel like a kid at his first Christmas," President Clinton said earlier as he watched from the roof of the John F. Kennedy Space Center. He wasn?t alone. Millions of visitors had flocked to the Cape, hoping to catch a little bit of the Glenn magic. And Glenn...
...homeless woman was arrested at 12:40 a.m. at Pearl and Mt. Auburn Streets after reportedly pulling four fire alarm boxes that night...
...Third District, TOM UDALL, son of STEWART UDALL, appears to be winning back a seat lost to the G.O.P.'S BILL REDMOND in 1997's special election. But the Greens' CAROL MILLER, whose showing helped Redmond last time, could again damage the Dems. This prospect does not seem to alarm the Greens much. "Third parties tend to exist only to nudge other candidates along," says DEAN MYERSON, the Greens' national secretary. "They don't take themselves seriously. But we do. We're grass roots...
...Everyone recognizes that the IMF isn't perfect," he said. "If you have a 10-alarm fire, you don't close the one firehouse you have because it's made some mistakes...
...cost of adding the insulation would run into the billions, which may be one reason why the FAA isn't sounding an urgent alarm. It hasn?t issued an "airworthiness directive," the FAA's term for something that must be done at once. Instead, the agency suggests that the retrofit be performed at each plane?s next scheduled maintenance check, or thereabouts. The FAA has known about the potential insulation problem for years -- its Chinese counterpart reported the problem in 1996 after a Chinese Eastern MD-11 caught fire in Beijing. Hopefully, no more fresh evidence will come along...