Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simultaneous false fire alarms in Lamont Library yesterday sent 150 to 200 people out into the ten-degree weather after a smoke detector in the second-floor smoking room was triggered and someone pulled an alarm on the sixth floor...
Jane R. Morhardt, assistant to the Lamont librarian, said yesterday, "Apparently, someone put a cigarette under the smoke detector, setting it off, and then someone heard the warning and pulled the alarm on the sixth floor...
Morhardt said evacuation is the typical procedure followed when an alarm is pulled, but he added the library staff is trained in the use of fire extinguishers to put out small local fires...
...admitted that his predictions of apocalypse could be wrong--if so, he said, he would not be the first prophet to miscalculate--but working on the assumption that lack of foresight would have devastating world-wide repercussions, Toffler said he felt he had a "moral duty" to sound the alarm...
Sound the alarm and call out the guards! The local neighborhood theater may soon be showing commercials between features. Indeed, may already be. For the past month Screenvision, the U.S. subsidiary of a French company, has flashed 30-sec. ads, for Seiko watches and Chanel perfumes, on 1,800 screens across the country. Twelve hundred other theaters are now under contract, and Screenvision plans to expand the time slot for commercials to three minutes. A U.S. company, Cinemavision, claims to have signed up another 4,200 theaters for next year. If all 16,000 theaters in the country accept...