Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nightmarish great leap forward, Seymour Wenner, the chief administrative law judge for the rate-making Postal Rate Commission, has come up with a decision that would pile an even huger increase on top of all the others. His announced formula, which touched off alarm bells throughout the world of print journalism last week, is to cut first-class rates from a dime to 8½? and make up for the lost income in part by raising second-class rates yet another 122%. Added to increases already in effect or planned, Wenner's scheme would boost second-class rates...
...affirmative action approach is full of problems. Its goals are close enough to being quotas to alarm academics, and far enough removed to be unable to guarantee substantive results. At institutions like Harvard, where the turnover in high-ranking teaching jobs is tiny and the applicant pool of black Ph.D.s small, affirmative action moves at a snail's pace. There are more than 700 full professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard's affirmative action program projects and increase between 1973 and 1976 from nine to 15 tenured minorities and from 18 to 37 tenured women...
...changes before the country's June 5 referendum on the Common Market for fear that its supporters will retaliate by voting no on the question of remaining in Europe. Although such time-buying may be politically unavoidable, it still accentuates the impression of rudderlessness. Many Britons share the alarm of Professor Hugh Clegg, member of the Labor government's Prices and Incomes Board in 1966-67, who recently warned that Britain is "spot on course for disaster and still accelerating." He added: "Let me say quite clearly what I think disaster is. It is the destruction...
...husband the lone slice of meat she receives for lunch at the factory. But when the strain of exhaustion and isolation becomes too powerful. Clara explodes into directionless rage and paroxysms of tears, set off by such poignant frustrations as her family's failure to set her alarm clock, making her late for work. No trace of individuality graces this stark portrait of women's oppression, so that while the helplessness and despair of Clara's position emerge with didactic clarity, her pliable, anonymous features do not hold any of the pathos which might convey the urgency of her plight...
California officials-including the Governor and both U.S. Senators -voiced alarm at the influx. California's health and welfare secretary, Mario Obledo, cabled Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to warn that the state could ill afford to absorb large numbers of homeless refugees since it already has "952,000 unemployed; 2.4 million receiving some form of medical or welfare aid; 4 million near the poverty levels; and 20 million paying taxes as close to the maximum tax as is acceptable in free enterprise." Plans are already afoot to isolate some 64,000 refugees in two aging Army outposts...