Word: alarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...direction to the JONBENET RAMSEY murder probe, the Boulder, Colo., district attorney, ALEX HUNTER, has quietly merged his agents with the Boulder police and moved them into a "war room" of three offices in Boulder's Justice Center, equipping it with shredders, secure phones, computers and a high-tech alarm system that guards against eavesdropping microphones. A nine-member team of detectives and assistant prosecutors will work out of the suite, which has a private entrance. The union between these sometimes antagonistic agencies was instigated by Hunter as a go-for-broke effort to bring greater focus to the often...
...hang up the phone and grab my portable alarm clock off the adjacent shelf. It's 9:13 a.m. I drop the clock to the floor, roll over and go back to sleep...
...severe: amending current statutes so that demonstrators would be required to seek advance permission for the street protests that have become a regular Hong Kong ritual and barring political parties from accepting foreign contributions, as in the U.S. But clumsy writing and ominous references to "national security" stoked widespread alarm that more draconian gags and shackles lay ahead...
Since the Reagan Administration's landmark report, A Nation at Risk, sounded the alarm in 1983, schools have been under constant pressure to help all students learn more, premised on the notion that whatever we asked of students in the past will not be sufficient for them or the country in the future...
...have been premature. In papers published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, investigators took a good look at the suspect genes and found them less guilty than originally charged. Women with positive screenings suddenly had cause to wonder whether the test result was a false alarm and whether any surgery they'd had was unnecessary...