Word: alarmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 100,000 people were using DMSO, primarily to treat sprains, bruises, minor burns and arthritis. The FDA'S concern about such widespread use of an experimental drug grew into alarm when animal studies indicated that DMSO might cause eye damage. That led to a virtual ban on clinical tests of the drug. But only a year later the restrictions were eased to permit experiments in such hard-to-treat illnesses as interstitial cystitis (a painful bladder inflammation), scleroderma (a condition characterized by thickening and hardening of the skin and sometimes internal organs as well) and rheumatoid arthritis...
...encounters the Chappaquiddick issue almost everywhere he goes. Last week in the heavily Polish Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, a crowd of several hundred mobbed him. Janet Tokarski presented him with a basket of colored Easter eggs, and an elderly man sprinkled him with rose water, to the momentary alarm of the candidate's Secret Service bodyguards. Nearby, however, Gus Makowski, 44, grumbled, "He's good with the older people, but this kind of stuff won't get my vote. He hasn't been honest enough." Much as the so-called character issue hurts, Kennedy will not even discuss...
...remained essentially a propaganda war, the quarrel between those traditional rival powers of the Middle East, Iran and Iraq, threatened last week to turn into open warfare. Following several days of mounting tensions, sporadic clashes broke out across the 700-mile Iranian-Iraqi border. Then, to the momentary alarm of capitals around the Middle East, an air battle erupted in the border area between Iraqi helicopter gunships and several Iranian Phantom jets and helicopters. There were also reports of increased military activity at Iraq's two main naval bases: Basra, on the Shatt al Arab, and Umm Qasr...
...fire department arrived a few minutes later, and, after determining the source and harmlessness of the alarm, let the museum personnel re-enter the museum...
Everything was back to normal ten minutes after the alarm sounded, Dougherty said. Personnel had smoked in the lounge for three years without incident, he added. Dougherty said the firemen, who cleaned and readjusted the detector for higher smoke tolerance, told him the device malfunctioned...