Word: alarmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply oversight that prompts administration neglect of these issues. It's fear, mostly of alumni. The men who run this University think those who went there in years past and who now provide its financial support will react with alarm should they become enlightened and allow too many female professors, or give too much support to the portion of their students that are gay, or end their policy of supporting apartheid through investments. In a sense, then, alumni are already putting on pressure, and Harvard is already conforming to what it perceives as their wishes...
While the DNA company decision represented a theoretical setback to what Harvard might have gained financially had it invested in the firm, the University suffered a tangible loss when a six-alarm fire, set by an arsonist, destroyed the press box in Harvard Stadium in late April, causing an estimated $75,000 in danage. Firefighters fought for 20 minutes to contain the blaze, which was whipped along by winds gusting at times to 45 miles an hour. Police arrested an 18-year-old Boston man, who admitted setting the blaze, three weeks after the fire. Despite the damage, officials...
...eyes betray him. Whenever his image is challenged, or even when he merely pauses to contemplate the possible consequences of his outrageous shuck, they grow round with alarm. Then there is the problem of body language. Just when he is smoothing along nice and easy, something will throw him off-stride, and he will be afflicted by these strange jerks and twitches. And that says nothing about the sudden babbles of overexplanation that seize him when someone in authority intrudes on one of his scenes...
...attacks touched off alarm bells around the world. The Israeli action, after all, posed high risks for the stability of the whole region...
There is a new feeling in our state and city, and it is not a very nice one. With deep concern, and even alarm. I see it filtering into all levels of our society and permeating our thinking and our attitudes toward each other. This feeling became actualized first in Proposition 13 in California and recently in Proposition 2 1/2 in Massachusetts. With startling success, speed and vigor, the Proposition 2 1/2 philosophy has penetrated the thinking process of many of our public officla, and citizens library trustees and librarians...