Word: alarmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produce nearly 25% of the world's automobiles between them. So when the two giant firms signed a $300 million preliminary agreement last week to build a subcompact car in California, GM's U.S. rivals sensed a threat to their business and let out cries of alarm. The loudest came from Lee Iacocca, chairman of Chrysler Corp., which is counting on small cars to help fuel its comeback. Iacocca called the GM-Toyota arrangement "fundamentally bad," and then added: "As an American, I get mad when I hear of deals like this." Said Paul Tippett, chairman of American...
...private secretary, Sir Philip Moore, who supervises the handling of the Queen's "boxes," which contain state pa pers waiting for the royal cipher; and two Scotland Yard detectives. As for security, ever since the matutinal intruder in her chamber last summer, she sleeps with a small alarm next to her bed connected to the room of an alert royal page...
...week signaled not only widespread sympathy but weary familiarity. Ever since he became Chief Justice nearly 14 years ago, Burger has been arguing that the high bench is overworked, and only hours before, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor had become the sixth court member publicly to sound an alarm...
...read the license plates on Kremlin limousines. Its strength lies in its ability to record panoramic views of large swatches of the earth in a multiplicity of colors, some of them beyond the range of human vision. Returning to the same site every 16 days, it can sound the alarm to changes in the health of crops, spot flows of pollutants into bodies of water, or track sulfur-laden clouds from fuming volcanoes...
...York Times editorial: "The stench of failure hangs over Ronald Reagan's White House . . . Mr. Reagan's loss of authority only halfway through his term should alarm all Americans...