Word: alarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high-domed nuclear reactor container buildings were scarcely discernible above the gentle waters of the Susquehanna River. Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident in the history of U.S. nuclear power production, and of a long, often confused nightmare...
...write more jokes about us than you can about plumbers, undertakers or Fuller brush salesmen. Hollywood is guilty of deliberate withdrawal from the living world. It seeks to entertain, and we suspect that the success of the withdrawal is what makes Hollywood funny. But let TIME Magazine view with alarm or point with pride, but not laugh off Hollywood's growing recognition of the fact that every movie expresses, or at least reflects, political opinion. Moviegoers live all over the world, come from all classes, and add up to the biggest section of human beings ever addressed by any medium...
...employee of a business on Mass. Ave. in Central Square reported that at 6:45 p.m. a black female attempted to steal approximately 20 pairs of pants by placing them in a large plastic bag. An alarm sounded when the suspect tried to exit the store, and she fled as employees tried to stop her. The merchandise was recovered...
...phone call alerted Coveney to the fire. After entering the basement, he grabbed a nearby fire extinguisher, emptied it onto the flames and pulled the alarm...
...price it may be asked to pay for restoring Democratic party unity: a $1-an-hour increase in the minimum wage over two years. But, says TIME business writer Bernard Baumohl, even in the unlikely event that the proposal is approved by Congress, business has little cause for alarm: ?There?s not much evidence to support the idea that increasing the minimum wage causes inflation ? the economy reacted well to the previous increase...