Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alarm fire in a furniture store yesterday closed Mass Ave to traffic near Central Square for almost four hours...
...Cambridge Police closed that section of Mass Ave shortly after the alarm went out at 10:30 a.m., and reopened it when the fire was brought under control...
France's business community was showing signs of profound alarm at the prospect. Capital investment has come to a virtual standstill because of business worries about the sweeping nationalization programs advocated by the Socialists and Communists in their ill-named (the two parties still differ greatly as to the details) Common Program. Two weeks ago, the franc took a dizzying plunge on European money markets as a result of what Barre termed "psychological factors explained by political uncertainty...
...alarm clock burrs, the bedroom curtains swing silently apart, the Venetian blinds snap up and the thermo stat boosts the heat to a cozy 70º. The percolator in the kitchen starts burbling; the back door opens to let out the dog. The TV set blinks on with the day 's first newscast: not your Today show humph-humph, but a selective rundown (ordered up the night before) of all the latest worldwide events affecting the economy ? legislative, political, monetary. After the news on TV comes the morning mail, from correspondents who have dictated their messages into the computer network...
Communications. In addition to a massive program that is gradually replacing electromechanical switching devices throughout its huge system, Ma Bell is looking into miracle chip applications that would turn the family phone into both burglar alarm and fire alarm, as well as home intercom system. Chips will be used to monitor equipment and alert maintenance teams to potential problems before they occur. Says Lee Thomas, Bell Labs' microprocessor chief: "Applications of the microprocessor five years from now will make the present ones look silly." Motorola has invested $20 million in developing a chip-operated portable phone that weighs less...