Word: alarmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, smoke from the extinguished fire triggered the House's fire alarm system which automatically notifies the local fire department, Johnson added...
Finally, the Crimson article airs the assertion that the Administration would invade Nicaragua if it had the public's support. While I can't be sure that this isn't the case, it is hardly a cuase for alarm. If the government and people of the United States decided that Nicaragua was a menace to our security, it would be folly for us not to defend ourselves. In the same manner, Israel would be justified in taking military action if Col. Khaddafy developed nuclear weapons. The issue is not one of law, involving guilt or innocence, but one of survival...
...latest spasms arose, ironically enough, from a false alarm. On Election Day, someone in the U.S. Government leaked word, based on sketchy and unconfirmed spy-satellite information, that crated Soviet MiG-21 interceptors were about to be unloaded at Nicaragua's Pacific port of Corinto from the Soviet freighter Bakuriani. The U.S. has long warned Nicaragua that the arrival of MiG-21s or similar fighters would be "unacceptable," since such weapons would upset the regional balance of air power...
...young Sikh men start to rid themselves of the traditionally visible traits of their culture--uncut hair wrapped in turbans, unshaven beards, etc.--some of the older, more conservative Sikhs have expressed alarm at the threat to Sikh identity. It is this impulse that lends support to Sikh separatists, no matter how extreme. But the moderates must lead the way into coming to terms with a changing society. The Sikh community must define for themselves what constitutes being a Sikh in the here and now and not in some romanticized and dangerous notion of seventeeth-century Sikh soldier-saints...
Trips to clothing stores can also cause alarm. "I resent some of these prices," says Houston Antiques Dealer M.W. Spaights, 60, clutching a shopping bag with a new sports shirt inside. "I bought a shirt just like this last year for $17, and now they want $25." In Bellingham, Wash., Social Worker Mark Bronson, 34, and his wife Janice have two young children to clothe, and the price of even the smallest garments can make them wince. Says Janice, 29: "I saw a dress that I liked for my three-month-old daughter, but it was $34. This is ridiculous...