Word: alarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crime has become Public Enemy No. 1, a bigger concern to most people than joblessness or the federal deficit. All over the U.S., citizens are buying alarm systems, installing window bars and escorting their offspring from school to soccer to Scouts. In a Time/CNN poll, 89% of those surveyed think crime is getting worse, and 55% worry about becoming victims themselves...
...Pennsylvania and a leading expert on what makes people put on pounds. "It runs counter to what we as a nation seem to be doing." In a sharply worded JAMA editorial, Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer of New York City's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital sounded the medical alarm, pointing out that the extra baggage is not just unsightly but unhealthy as well. Pi-Sunyer says the plumping of America will put millions of people at an increased risk for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, gout, arthritis and some forms of cancer. "If this were about tuberculosis," he observes...
...departure for Paris. Most of the 227 passengers had settled into their seats in an almost festive mood, as they looked forward to joining family and friends for the holidays. The boarding of four armed men in blue uniforms with Air Algerie identification badges caused no alarm. Explaining they were security agents, the men proceeded to check the passengers' passports. Then they suddenly closed and locked the doors. "I knew it was a hostage taking when they shouted, 'Allah is great!' " recalled a 40-year-old Algerian-born mechanic now living in France. "I thought of my children back...
...second lesson is that a crisis can come out of nowhere and land your favorite emerging market on the front pages. Then you read about all the people who saw it coming. If they saw it coming, then why didn't they raise the alarm beforehand...
...mishandling of HCIA's recognition process is cause for alarm within the Harvard community. If we grant the right to express and disseminate ideas to some students but deny these same privileges to others, then we might as well stop all this highminded talk about tolerance and diversity. Those who stood on the Widener steps in December to cheer the words of Professor David Mitten as he denounced the attacks on Muslims in Bosnia should, to be consistent, be among the first to speak out on behalf of HCIA. If one stands in solidarity with the Bosnian Muslims across...