Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divisions that produce everything from eyeglasses and iron cookware to rocket engines and rolling mills, Textron added a 27th by buying for $7,000,000 a small Vermont toolmaking firm called Jones & Lamson. Management meetings are brief at Textron because the chairman dislikes rambling conversation, sets a wristwatch alarm to make sure that he does not ramble him self. Shattering the old axiom, Textron, under Banker Thompson, last year earned $18 million on sales of $587 million, is now New England's second biggest company after United Aircraft...
...stimulated by a never-ending influx of capital from less fortunate lands, Switzerland has long sat rich and contented in the heart of Europe. Switzerland's economic life, in fact, has ticked along for years with the precision and balance of a fine Swiss clock. Last week the alarm rang loudly, waking the Swiss from their reverie...
...this stems, of course, from the fact that man has ten fingers. With eight fingers, he might have invented a base-eight number system. Many children now explore the base-two (binary) system, used in computers, which depends only on 0 and 1 . They alarm parents with the news, for example, that seven is not 7 but 111, each digit is twice the one to the right: one 4, one 2, one 1, adding up to 7, each digit is twice the one to the right; one 4, one 2, one 1, adding up to 7. Similarly...
Both Benjamin I. Schwarts '38, professor of History and Government, and Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government and Research Associate in the Center for International Affairs, felt that France's move should not be a cause for great alarm in America...
...there are signs of resentment against a practice that overstimulates but blocks fulfillment. The resentment, however, is taking forms that alarm many parents. In a sweeping generalization, Dr. Blaine reports that "Radcliffe girls think petting is dirty because it is teasing. They feel if you are going to do that, it is better just to have intercourse." This may apply to some, but, as Harvard's President Pusey reported in a speech last week, 80% of Radcliffe girls get degrees with honors, "so they can't do all that running around they're supposed...