Word: alarmed
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...would betray their supporters if they did any favors for the "welfare bureaucracy" so often excoriated in their campaign ads. Yet when conservatives seek to undercut the very means of political competition itself--to systematically cut off their ideological opponents from access to advocacy--there is good reason for alarm. Bewildered by attacks on all sides, American liberals need to apprehend the broader import of Republican efforts to entrench themselves in power...
...morning, Tadesse turned offher alarm, grabbed a knife and stabbed Ho 45times, wounding Nguyen in the wrist and foot whenNguyen tried to stop her. Tadesse then went ot herbathroom where she hung herself. She waspronounced dead at the hospital...
...Crouch, who appears with his choir on several tracks of the CD, took time out to pray for Jackson. Says Crouch: "My singers and I gathered around him and prayed that everything would settle and all the sparks would stop." The hype surrounding HIStory is more like a four-alarm fire, a marketing campaign that will blaze through Christmas 1996. Crouch should say a prayer...
Threatening someone over the computer will now be a crime under a new Connecticut law. Connecticut is the third state to ban online acts that intend to harass, annoy or alarm another person. Several other states are considering such legislation. Although some fear that the wording of the new law is too vague, giving the government too much power to determine what kind of speech is acceptable, state lawmakers say it just extends legal prohibitions against harassment to computer communications. "This simply takes existing law into the 21st Century," says the law's sponsor, Representative Patricia Dillion...
...From government officials, who are concerned that Microsoft has developed a choke hold on a critical industry and who view with alarm the prospect of Microsoft's moving into banking, telecommunications, publishing and entertainment...