Word: alarming
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Ford insisted that there was "no cause for alarm," but added that "we cannot afford to take a chance with the health of this country." Experts agreed, pointing out that whenever an entirely new flu strain has appeared (as opposed to a minor variant like A/Victoria), it has been followed by a massive outbreak the following season. When that happens, the death toll can be high, even in an era of antibiotics (to fight bacterial-linked infections) and other forms of treatment unavailable in 1918-19. During the most recent pandemic in 1968-69, for example, about 28,000 Americans...
Four Cambridge fire trucks and more than a dozen firemen responded to an accidental alarm triggered by electricians working in Canaday Hall yesterday afternoon...
...third or fourth accidental alarm in the last week, Deputy Andrew R. Murphy of the Cambridge Fire Department said yesterday...
...These new internal alarms are a real pain in the neck," Murphy said. Canaday is equipped with an automatic fire sensing and alarm system...
...assured her they were getting a great education. Members did see a need for more faculty concern for what they considered to be the legitimate role of students in decision-making in the School. The declining rate of increase in applications made to the GSD was also cause for alarm among Committee members. Stated in the Dean's Report to the Visiting Committee, May, 1975: "Starting with 1970/71, the annual percentage increase in applications has been 20.4, 23.1, 22.5, 14.2, and this year 6.8." One member remarked that applications are rising in schools involved in environmental issues. Another expressed...