Word: alarmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alarm over malpractice suits is nothing new. The word crisis was used in the mid-1970s, when there were fewer than five malpractice suits filed annually for every 100 doctors. The A.M.A. report cites statistics from one large insurance company that in 1983 there were 16 malpractice suits filed for every 100 doctors. During 1974, according to data from Ohio's Jury Verdict Research Inc., there were only four malpractice awards in excess of $1 million. In 1983, by comparison, there were 70. The total value of awards to plaintiffs that year reached $2 billion...
...wake of the Goetz case a hit-and-run driver in New York City had been caught and beaten by an enraged mob. Said the Journal: "Authorities must recognize that their own failure to protect citizens itself breeds crime." The Boston Globe viewed "pistol- packin' Bernhard Goetz" with alarm: "With no psychiatric evaluation yet made, he may resemble Richard Speck more than Wyatt Earp...
...decided to send this bunch of bloodthirsty cutthroats into those camps," said Barr to the jurors, "alarm bells would be going off in your heads. You would be saying, 'God, keep those people out of there. We can't let those people go into those camps.' Yet he (Sharon) sat on the witness stand and told you, 'I didn't know it was going to happen. I had no idea, never in my wildest dreams...
...Riding's alarm is short-lived. In what seems like an inappropriate attempt to close on an hopeful note, Riding ends by praising the even-tempered, gentle nature of the Mexican people. But having failed to previously make the connection between politics and the Mexican national character, and given his pessimism of the previous chapter, his cultural generalizations sound simplistic...
...puissant enough to capture the attention of more little boys than any other television show in America. He-Man power has sold $500 million in toys made by the Mattel company for its Masters of the Universe line and another $500 million in He-Man toothbrushes, underwear, sheets and alarm clocks manufactured under license to Mattel...