Word: alarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Labor and other government sources have told TIME. According to the poll, Labor's share of the 120-seat Knesset would shrink from 44 seats to only 27. The opposition Likud Party, on the other hand, would leap from 32 seats to 47. "There is a great deal of alarm in the party," one Labor official admits. The clandestine poll, unlike far more optimistic recent public surveys, had an unusually large sample size of 10,000 respondents. TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says Laborites expected a popularity bubble after Israel's new peace treaty with Jordan, the granting...
...billion in annual pain reliever sales -- could prevent 10 percent of kidney failure cases, saving about $700 million in medical bills a year, the study concludes. But Johnson & Johnson, parent of Tylenol's maker, lashed out, calling the drug "remarkably safe" and saying the report would "unnecessarily alarm the public...
...serve them, rather than on upper-income Americans and business interests. Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week brushed off the inequities of Social Security and its projected insolvency, which he dismissed as "an abstraction that is 25 years from now." He added that it is "utterly irrational" to alarm retirees about entitlements before first reforming lesser categories of federal spending. President Clinton privately expressed similar reluctance to tackle welfare for the well-off because such a crusade would incur the wrath of interest groups influential among Democrats, including the elderly lobby, labor unions and the real estate industry...
...hostess was happy about the interruption, he said, because she had "wanted to go to sleep before the alarm went...
Benjamin A. Siris '96 said he was "studying, with major, major work to do" last week when an alarm went off. He called the alarms "damn inconvenient...