Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their zeal to stir up consumer business, banks resorted to all kinds of gimmicks: drive-in branches, banking by mail, extended hours. Prizes ranging from alarm clocks to television sets were offered to people who opened a new savings account. They held contests and saturated the home screen with come-on promotions. Big city and regional banks also expanded into Europe, Asia and Latin America, initially in order to serve U.S.-based multinational companies but later to provide a full range of banking services...
...false fire alarm in Lamont Library early yesterday afternoon forced about 150 students studying for exams to evacuate the building. The alarm was apparently activated by cigarette smoke, a library employee said...
...Cambridge Fire Department responded within five minutes to the alarm, which went off shortly after 2:30 p.m. After a brief search of the building, the firement concluded that there was no fire and students were allowed back into the building...
...businessmen at last cleaned out swollen inventories and began filling orders from new production. The sell-off gave the economy a one-shot lift; the rate of production growth is widely expected to drop back to about 5% in the current quarter-an anticipated development and no cause for alarm...
...result, building security at the Mount Auburn St. site will be tightened, Elizabeth S. Faindow, executive assistant to the director, said yesterday. Among the plans being considered are the use of extra outside lighting and the installation of an alarm system, she said. The buildings and grounds department has repaired the interior doors, nine of which were unhinged or kicked...